音标:[maiә] ;
n. 泥沼, 泥泞
vt. 使陷于泥泞, 使陷入困境
vi. 掉进泥坑
n. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
n. a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
v. cause to get stuck as if in a mire
词型变化:名词复数形式 : mires ; 过去分词 : mired ; 过去式 : mired ; 现在分词 : miring ; 第三人称单数 : mires
考试类型:[IELTS/GRE]
词性分布:
动词84%
名词16%

mire的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. The mist arose in the remote mire.遥远的泥沼上方升起了薄雾。
  2. He has run away and landed in the mire.他逃开,却开到泥坑里去了。
  3. He tried to increase his income by gambling only to plunge more deeply into the mire.他企图借赌博增加收入,却陷入了更深的困境。
用作动词(v.)
  1. Don' t mire the wheels of a cart.不要让车轮陷于泥坑。
  2. The most brilliant person may be mired in detail and confusion.即使是最聪明的人也会陷入琐事与混乱之中。

词汇搭配

  • find oneself in the mire隐于困境(束手无策)...
  • mire drum天然盐水
  • mire vegetation沼泽植被,沼泽地植被...
  • drag sb. through the mire把某人搞臭
  • be in the mire陷入困境
  • drag someone's name through the mire玷污某人的名声...
  • drag someone through the mire使某人丢丑,把某人的...
  • stick in the mire陷在泥淖里

经典引文

  • The track..was a mire, impassable even for four-wheel drive vehicles.

    出自:S. Naipaul
  • No turbulent..hailstorms or thunderstorms to mire or discomfit them.

    出自:J. Heller
  • The milk cow was mired in a bog hole.

    出自:New Yorker
【近义词】

The Telecommunications Revolution (The Telecommunications Revolution) A transformation is occurring that should greatly boost living standards in the developing world. Places that until recently were deaf and dumb are rapidly acquiring up-to-date tel

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(33) / 评论(0) 分类 新视野大学英语读写教程(4)

World Telecommunication Day (WTD) celebrates the advances we have made in how we communicate with each other. It is on May 17 each year because that is the day in 1865 when the International Telegraph Union (ITU) started. The ITU manages how the worl

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 英语课程学习计划和讲义

Can Smartphones Send Tastes, Smells, Touch Someday? 能发送味道、气味、触摸的智能手机将能实现? We can express thoughts and feelings and send sounds and pictures on our smartphones today. We also communicate using programs like Skyp

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(二)月

One of China's leading communications companies has unveiled plans to expand its broadband and Wi-fi coverage in Tibet. CRI's Zhang Shuangfeng has more. Tibet Branch of China Mobile has launched 4G wireless communication network this June. And along

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 世界各地新闻集锦

(1)贵函 Your letter; Your favour; your esteemed letter; Your esteemed favour; Your valued letter; Your valued favour; Your note; Your communication; Your greatly esteemed letter; Your very frien

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Science and technology 科学技术 Visible-light communication 可见光通信 Tripping the light fantastic 与光共舞 A fast and cheap optical version of Wi-Fi is coming 一个高速而廉价的光学Wi-Fi即将问世 AMONG the many new gadgets u

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列
学英语单词
acceptor trap
alizarin celestol
alleve
anjali (india)
Baijnath
balsamico
barnabites
basket-cases
basophil(basophilic)leukocyte
beach slope
bio-aging
bitwise exor
coauthor
come on the carpet
common law lien
computational fluid mechanics
crepe rayon yarn
cyberphysical
dead eye
dehydration preheater
desirability of investment
diddlysquat
DirecPC DirecPC
disc read data
dyeing
electrochondria
fanchonette
geometric constants of crystal
Goszczanów
gradual modulation
grass mud horses
gross information content
guerinoes
haji
herbster
hired hand
histocompatibility loci
Huerta, Victoriano
hydrocarbons in the reservoir
hydroxylamine
hypnea pannosa
idle balances
Jervaulx
kishu
knotting varnish
Laracha
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
loss of field protection
luminous efficacy of radiant flux
make any sense
Mesopotamian furniture
micro comparator
microthrowing power
moniliosis
monoiodoacetate
monthly balance
mukanda
network gateway accounting
oceanographic data interrogating station
oral contraceptives
petro-chemicals
piezo semiconductor transducer
pillow princesses
polypide bud
population exposure
powerbroking
public agent
r-f head
reed-sparrow
Replace All
reserves possible
Rodman gun
Rodzianko
sealore
secretory potential
self-owner
Seneca root
sense-organ
shunted
slscs-s
soirs
stackin' papers
summer-blue
Sundozero, Ozero
surge-protect socket
teacher-in-training
theame
themeda triandra forsk.var.japonica hack.
thrinax parvifloras
tileable
tippy leaf
towing meter
trade buyer
trade negotiations group
trifarious
twice a year
unattended engineroom
unlimbered
vena gastroomentalis
Voluntary Service Overseas
walking HIV
wormell