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quicksand 音标拼音: [kw'ɪks ,ænd] n. 流沙,流沙地,危险状态 流沙,流沙地,危险状态 quicksand n 1: a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy 2: a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked downQuicksand \ Quick" sand`\, n. Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it. [ 1913 Webster] Life hath quicksands, -- Life hath snares! -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 110 Moby Thesaurus words for " quicksand": baygall, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, breakers ahead, buffalo wallow, cardhouse, cause for alarm, clutch, complication, coral heads, crisis, crunch, danger, dangerous ground, embarrassing position, embarrassment, emergency, endangerment, everglade, fen, fenland, fine how- do- you- do, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, glade, hazard, hell to pay, hobble, hog wallow, holm, hot water, house of cards, how- do- you- do, imbroglio, imperilment, ironbound coast, jam, jeopardy, ledges, lee shore, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, menace, mere, mess, mire, mix, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, parlous straits, pass, peat bog, peril, pickle, pinch, pitfall, plight, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, quagmire, quicksands, risk, rockbound coast, rocks, rocks ahead, salt marsh, sandbank, sandbar, sands, scrape, shallows, shoals, slob land, slough, sough, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, storm clouds, strait, straits, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, thin ice, threat, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, undercurrent, undertow, unholy mess, wallow, wash |
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