Mire

(noun.) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.

(noun.) a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; 'the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president'; 'caught in the mire of poverty'.

(verb.) soil with mud, muck, or mire; 'The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden'.

(verb.) cause to get stuck as if in a mire; 'The mud mired our cart'.

整理:罗威娜

• In this state they traversed without change, except of horses and pace, all the mire-deep leagues that lay between them and the capital. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• No, it was all trodden into mire. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I am determined that after I have climbed up out of the mire, you shall not pull me down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I mustn't see my gentleman a footing it in the mire of the streets; there mustn't be no mud on his boots. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Yet it was not a common passage through common rain, and mire, and noise, to Clennam, having this little, slender, careful creature on his arm. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• All persons of refinement have been scared away from me since I sank into the mire of marriage. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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