| 词汇 | example_english_quagmire |
| 释义 | Examples of quagmireThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. A lot of people are trying to lead me into quagmires at the moment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They see the quagmires of self-indulgence and delay. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our chief enemy has been the weather, for two months of heavy and continual rain turned the ground into quagmires, which meant that our forces became practically roadbound. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Great stretches of those ancient green lanes are reduced to muddy quagmires in wet weather and rendered almost impassable by ruts—sometimes up to 2 ft deep even in dry weather. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whether their ventures fall prey to the same turf wars, bureaucratic quagmires and academic catfights as the site that spawned them remains to be seen. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The competency quagmire: clarification of the nursing perspective concerning the issues of competence and informed consent. One significant reason for this was that drivers often took shortcuts across unpaved roads, which after rains became nothing more than quagmires. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The going was difficult, because the weather had been rainy and windy, and the troops and wagons turned the roads into muddy quagmires. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The weather soon deteriorated again, with the roads once more turning into impassable, muddy quagmires. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Out of the quagmire of plant defense hypotheses. Is it likely that all these great industrial nations went on deliberately throwing millions of pounds into a quagmire? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To use my own expression, it is a quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want to get out of this quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The thing is put in a perfect quagmire of confusion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not better to start from high ground to make your rise rather than to start from a quagmire to take a jump? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we can drag ourselves from this quagmire into the free and open spaces of uncluttered light, so much the better. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When you are getting into a horrible quagmire, the only remedy is to plunge in deeper and deeper. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I support it strongly, because the issue of compensation will prove to be a quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The unqualified phrase "other behaviour" will be an enormous legal quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Already, this sodden field has been trampled into a quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, they have not yet extracted themselves from a legislative quagmire of their own making. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To put it bluntly, it is a real mess—a quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am perfectly certain that the only way out of this quagmire is to have one system for all firms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do not let us wander away into the quagmire of economic differences when we are discussing a simple but important issue like the housing problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a deadly quagmire of need and apathy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I thought it rather extreme to say that this modest amendment would put local government back in some imaginary quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As has been said, it would need several constitutional and electoral lawyers to give us any idea about the quagmire in front of us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a tremendous quagmire here which needs to be addressed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do we really want to submerge ourselves in such a socialist quagmire? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not imperative that we have time for the explanations to be given, so that we do not get into a legal quagmire later? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we ever give up that principle, we shall be getting into a quagmire of illogicalities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She started to speak rather sympathetically, but she then lathered herself into a perfect fury and that sympathy melted in a quagmire of quibbles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All one can do is to try to weave one's way through this quagmire, assert certain basic principles and see that they are maintained. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They fear that in the winter it will become a quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Worse, when theory comes to practice, that ideology sinks into a quagmire of, at best, expediency and, at worst, corruption. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should not be sinking into the quagmire of more public ownership, which is expensive and largely unwanted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Educationists who refuse to face the realities of educational finance are merely leading their fellow educationists into a quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am frightened that we have become more involved in the quagmire in the past six months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am glad that he at least realises precisely what most of us feel—that we have walked into a quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They cannot wait for us to sort out the quagmire and introduce new rules and regulations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They may, on the other hand, be dangerous if they sink into the quagmire of self-indulgence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She went into a quagmire about how much she loved public transport, and refused to answer the question. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is little point in having an open gate if one has to go through a quagmire to reach it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should bear in mind that the amendment before us would take us straight back into that quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The burden of defence is so tremendous that we are sinking deeper and deeper into the economic quagmire under its weight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One would have to go through a quagmire of legalised contradiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The group has at last pulled itself out of the financial quagmire and is now trading in the black. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such measures have all the makings of a managerial quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amendment has put us in a quagmire of confusion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Young people in particular are in a quagmire. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The current legal set-up protects the fraudster, leaving the victim lost in a quagmire of paperwork and expensive legal action. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English There are too many unanswered questions in this quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How do we get out of the quagmire? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The entrance to the children's playground was a quagmire, and the banks of the lake were rotting away. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 British military involvement must not be allowed to escalate into such a quagmire, and we do not believe that escalation is inevitable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To take over the commanding heights of the economy is at once to reduce them to the quagmire of the economy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are in some form of industrial and commercial quicksand and quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Once we draw a distinction—and this distinction is implied—and say that one person's life has more sanctity than another's, we shall be in a quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now a hand is extended to lead industry from its quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I, too, have experience of the delight which drivers of such vehicles take in reducing paths which are also open to horses to a quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we fail to get out and the quagmire gets ever worse, we will rue the day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He will get deeper and deeper into the quagmire of controlling local authorities and their expenditure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we narrow the measures down to academic and academically related research, in an absolute quagmire of statistics the only decent estimates go back as far as 1982. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am in a sort of quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall all be glad to get through the quagmire outside for the last time for a month when we leave this building in two days' time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We rapidly got into a quagmire of disputes in those days on how you define the outputs and whether they are just managerial or political as well. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To emerge from the quagmire of the crisis, it is also necessary, for both localised and global economic health, to show there is sufficient capital in the finance system. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I should like to see much greater investment in industry, education and training for skills which would gradually enable us to get out of our present quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Typically, while those maze manufacturers, quagmire constructors and fog fabricators have almost disappeared without trace from the local government scene, poor councillors have been left to deal with the bills. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I explained that it could lead one into the danger, the quagmire, of improving the conditions of the supplementary pensioners beyond the bulk of the people just above them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their policies for the development areas would result in a quagmire of despair, particularly bearing in mind the full employment in the major industries in my constituency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, we are in some danger of getting ourselves into a legal quagmire, by pre-empting something being considered and where there is a larger issue of representative class actions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a legal and bureaucratic quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We therefore find ourselves in this quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have been led into a quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think we are in a position where a beautiful and gracious lady has dimples of iron and her charm looks fair to beguile us into an enchanted quagmire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To sink the country into a quagmire of complacency and to pretend that everything is all right is to delude us with illusions of national grandeur. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clause 1, which is a quagmire of a provision, gives a vote to almost all those who want to wangle one if they own a certain amount of property. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At that date the contractors were still building and the ground was a quagmire in many areas. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The ground was in a flood plain, resulting in the pitch being described as frequently reduced to a quagmire. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The complexities of divorce, separation and children living separate is a quagmire of complications. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By 3 p.m. the daily rains had started, making a slippery quagmire of the battlefield. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The road was a hopeless quagmire and nothing could be discerned there. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Each island map has its own initial situation or quagmire that the player can deal with however one sees fit. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Before the kick-off the pitch was in a very muddy condition, and it quickly deteriorated into a quagmire. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. No longer will we be berated by endless essay prompts or mathematical quagmires. To say simply that it is false and that therefore its negation is true leads into the quagmire from which we are trying to escape. Yavesia, in contrast, remains immersed in a legal and political quagmire. Externalists see themselves as fortunate they avoid what they see as the quagmire, and scepticism, people get into with reassessment demands. Efforts must be undertaken to assure that terminal sedation does not fall into a quagmire of taxonomical confusion. There is a quagmire in not using the formal institutions because they do not function properly, but then subsequently undermining their development by sidestepping them. Making a gesture towards the past, the author enters a quagmire from which, it seems, nothing can be reborn. The unique settings of health care, the division of speciality and the diversity of patients and their ailments could contribute to a communication quagmire. One quickly encounters the half-empty/half-full quagmire that is characteristic of this topic. There was no electricity, no running water, and the few dirt roads connecting the settlements to the nearest town turned into a quagmire after every rain. Clearly, one of the things these countries have to do in order to transcend their present quagmire is to revisit the past with a view to determining what went wrong. While the definition may be short on substance, it rises above the quagmire in which we generally find ourselves when we attempt to characterize 'writing', especially modulo its spoken cousin. The quagmire of ethical, legal, moral, and even aesthetic questions that surround the use (and misuse) of leftover body parts can only become more complex and contentious, not less. At least 8 000 died, their bodies lost in the blood-soaked quagmire of the battlefield, a field which became a mass grave. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We might still be in a legal quagmire unless we have a proper interinstitutional agreement. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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