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quicksand的英文翻译是什么意思,词典释义与在线翻译:
英英释义
Noun:
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a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy
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a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
quicksand的用法和样例:
例句
用作名词 (n.)
- A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
骡子不会陷入流沙中,但是驴子会。 - Is it true that a man who steps into quicksand is doomed to die?
掉入流沙中的人就注定会死去吗? - Yet it has a way of slipping through your fingers like quicksand.
可是它会像流沙一样从缝间溜走。 - Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
虚荣乃理学之流沙。 - Conceit is the quicksand of success.
自负是成功的流沙。
经典引文
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By confiding in her..he had trodden unwarily into the quicksand of emotional dependence on her.
出自: P. Arrowsmith