morass的意思|morass的解释-里氏词典

morass [mə'ræs]

n. 沼泽, 困境, 乱糟糟的一堆

morass

[ noun ]
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
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Morass \Mo*rass"\, n. [OE. marras, mareis (perh. through D.
moeras), fr. F. marais, prob. from L. mare sea, in LL., any
body of water; but perh. influenced by some German word. See
{Mere} a lake, and cf. {Marsh}.]
A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.

{Morass ore}. (Min.) See {Bog ore}, under {Bog}.

This domestic morass also has become linked to the beginnings of a foreign-policy problem.
Now they're delighted to have contra supporters dragged through the morass of the legal system.
I don't think he knew he had a right to change things." As South America sinks lower into economic morass, its young people see their futures sinking with it.
But when someone like Kearns wants to bring an invention to market, the patent system is a roadblock because it allows for a legal morass like the one Kearns found himself in.
We have a fair degree of tolerance for watching sausages and laws being made, but somewhere in this morass a line has to be drawn.
The result was Latin America's "lost decade" of the 1980s, a morass of hyperinflation, crushing debts and yawning deficits.
During the meeting, some parliamentarians blamed the previous party and state leadership for the economic and social morass that has engulfed this nation of 16.5 million.
Confronted by such diverse views and by a morass of contradictory government economic reports, many investment managers say they are waiting to make any major strategy changes until clearer signals of the economy's health emerge.
Only the turning point of Balzac's life cuts through this morass.
It is conceivable that the Communists left behind such a morass that there could be starvation this winter.
How to sift through the morass of 1 million claims on eastern German property made by western Germans who used to live in the region.
Pleasant, Iowa, a tiny thrift that found its way into the morass of condominium construction transactions near Dallas in early 1983.
The report makes it clear that the auditor must be seen not to face a conflict of interest. The proposal to limit liability for the extended audit on listed companies will excite those looking for a way forward in the current morass over litigation.
Whatever their differences on a formal framework, the prosperous Western democracies are gearing up for a multi-billion-dollar effort to protect Mikhail Gorbachev from the economic morass that threatens his hold on Soviet power.
Nikko Securities Co. tapped Hideo Suzuki to extricate its U.S. operations from Wall Street's post-crash morass and to make the unit profitable.
Into the morass has stepped Mr. Mikhailets, who says he hopes to organize a large strike "to get the government to focus on problems in the region, which go beyond just the miners."
The process was so complex it required an army of people. The company was lost in a morass of plans.
We can only come through this morass if we attract new capital.
That simple fact of timing, even more than the morass of historically intractable issues, almost certainly dooms this mission.
This makes all the more curious the idea of prosecuting Pentagon officials, consultants and contractors if what they did was try to make this morass work to defend the nation.
Money-center banks gave the superregionals an opening by slipping into the morass in Latin America.
The congressional morass surrounding the capital gains issue is reminiscent of the battle two years ago over interest deductions for borrowing for corporate takeovers.
Yet swaps are a buzzword these days among bankers looking for a way out of the Third World debt morass.
In his first speech to Parliament since becoming premier Monday, Modrow on Friday outlined a mix of free enterprise and socialist planning to rescue East Germany from its economic morass.
The negotiations ended a lengthy, expensive legal dispute between the two companies and helped Mr. Paquette's company extricate itself from a financial morass created when it ran out of construction funds for Midland.

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