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Related topics: Naturemire /maɪə $ maɪr/ noun [uncountable] literary 1 DNdeep mud 泥潭，泥坑 The wheels got stuck in the mire. 轮子陷入泥潭里了。2 the mire literary PROBLEMa bad or difficult situation that you cannot seem to escape from 困境；艰难的处境 SYN quagmire The Party sank deeper into the mire of conflict. 该党在冲突的泥潭里陷得更深了。3. drag somebody’s name through the mire literary CRITICIZEto say bad things about someone in public, so that other people have a bad opinion of them 玷污某人的名声，辱没某人Examples from the Corpusmire• One outstanding local example was the Broyle in Ringmer, 2000 acres of scrub and clay mire, an old deer park.• As the country is at present face down in the mire, such a development could only have positive benefits for us all.• I was sinking fast in the mire of soft money.• No one who had ever struggled in the mire as she had, could fail to understand.• It will take a political Houdini escape trick to keep him from being sucked further into the mire.• His enemies had made false accusations against him and wanted to drag him through the mire.Origin mire (1200-1300) Old Norse myrrmire nounChinese mud deep Corpus |