中文词源
morass 沼泽，困境
来自Proto-Germanic*mari,湖，海，词源同moor,marsh,marine.即像湖一样的，后用于指湿地，沼泽。引申词义困境。
英语词源
- morass (n.)
- "wet, swampy tract," 1650s, from Dutch moeras "marsh, fen," from Middle Dutch marasch, from Old French marais "marsh," from Frankish, possibly from West Germanic *marisk, from Proto-Germanic *mariskaz "like a lake," from *mari "sea" (see mere (n.)). The word was influenced in Dutch by moer "moor" (see moor (n.)). Figurative use is attested from 1867. Replaced earlier mareis (early 14c.; see marish).
权威例句
- 1. I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
- 我试图从绝望的困境中走出来。
- 2. Mathematical knowledge was certain and offered a secure foothold in a morass.
- 数学知识是确定无疑的,它给人们在沼泽地上提供了一个稳妥的立足点.
- 3. EXAMPLE : During the rainy season the valley became an impassible morass.
- 雨季的山谷变成了不可通行的沼泽.
- 4. The books are written off as a morass of stuff and nonsense.
- 这些书写的全是一派胡言.
- 5. But the real worry is the thickening morass of indirect debt.
- 但是,真正担心的是间接债务泥潭的增厚.
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