Low, flat, swampy land; a bog or marsh. 沼泽低平的沼泽地;泥塘或湿地
Unwittingly I walked into a bog. 不知不觉地我走进了一个烂泥塘。
bog
[ noun ]
wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
Bog \Bog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bogging}.] To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. --Sir W. Scott.
bog \bog\ (b[o^]g), n. [Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire.] 1. A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. --R. Jago.
2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.]
{Bog bean}. See {Buck bean}.
{Bog bumper} (bump, to make a loud noise), {Bog blitter}, {Bog bluiter}, {Bog jumper}, the bittern. [Prov.]
{Bog butter}, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland.
{Bog earth} (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. --P. Cyc.
{Bog moss}. (Bot.) Same as {Sphagnum}.
{Bog myrtle} (Bot.), the sweet gale.
{Bog ore}. (Min.) (a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.
{Bog rush} (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.
{Bog spavin}. See under {Spavin}.
It is simply too diffuse to grip the reader, with overly detailed descriptions of military hardware, meandering pace and Ng's flat narration combining to bog the story down.
When a dam holding runoff broke and flooded a pristine bog in German Valley, researcher Joe Lange discovered that water leaving the bog was clear.
When a dam holding runoff broke and flooded a pristine bog in German Valley, researcher Joe Lange discovered that water leaving the bog was clear.
Fire burning underground in a peat bog in Washington state bedeviled firefighters and choked a Seattle suburb with smoke.
Graciela Daniele's fast-paced direction and snappy choreography propel the musical, rushing the actors through the plot when details try to bog down the evening.
It now remains to see whether the special interests will again drag Washington and the Senate back into their bog of demagoguery and distortion.
Neither the Bass group nor Macmillan officials reacted formally, although advisers to both said they expect the battle for the company's control to bog down in court for now.
Nor do we want to be nearby when the bottom falls out of a cranberry bog.
Famous as it may be among bog lovers, the swamp in John Bunyan's 17th-century tale "Pilgrim's Progress" would hardly make most teachers' list of the basics that children should learn in school.
Smoke from the peat bog fire at Redmond, Wash., combined with patchy fog, has caused morning commuter traffic problems and road closures, and the stench has choked residents and dairy cows.
A decision is likely to be made to add the sports of triathlon and taekwondo in time for the 2000 Games in Sydney. A bog in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, is the venue for the World Bog Snorkelling Championships.
After pressure from conservationists, environment secretary Nicholas Ridley said he would consider revoking planning permission for the bypass, which would cut through a bog on the royal estate that is home to the moth.
"We are on the edge," and the Soviet Union can become a "great, free socialist country" or bog down in bureaucracy again, Tsvetov said.
The Senate spent five days on the bill, but Republicans blocked any progress, twice rebuffed Democrats' attempts to limit debate, and were prepared to offer as many as 160 amendments in order to bog down the measure.
"We try not to bog 'em down in a lot of grueling practice and film-watching."
Most servicemen are housed at Mount Pleasant, a new airfield complex built on a peat bog 35 miles from Stanley, the capital, along a road that (although the islands' best) is only partly tarmac. They are pretty self-sufficient.
Low fuel forced her to land in a bog in Nova Scotia.
Union displeasure over the K-car plan, Chrysler's initial contract proposals and other developments had helped sour and bog down the talks, which were begun earlier than usual to help ease growing friction between the company and the United Auto Workers.
Stephen Brennan, a handsome Irish actor, plays Vinnie, a Don Quixote of the peat bog.
After a dam holding mine runoff broke and flooded a pristine bog in German Valley, West Virginia University researcher Joe Lange discovered that water leaving the bog was crystal clear.
After a dam holding mine runoff broke and flooded a pristine bog in German Valley, West Virginia University researcher Joe Lange discovered that water leaving the bog was crystal clear.
And the Kremlin sent troops and tanks into Afghanistan in 1979, only to see them bog down in a protracted war with Moslem guerrillas.
With each scene we seem to bog down in a new sub-Velasquez tableau.