會把腳吸住的爛泥地
這一組就是核心畫面本身：真的踩得到、真的會陷的那塊地。
noun · B2
An area of soft wet muddy ground that your feet sink into, so that walking across it is slow and hard and you can lose a boot in it.
泥沼／爛泥地
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: ground that looks like ground until you put your weight on it. Then it gives way, closes around your foot and holds. The trouble is not that it is dirty — it is that it takes hold, and pulling hard is exactly what sinks you deeper. Everywhere this word goes, that is what it is saying: you are in, and your own effort is not getting you out.
可以想成：一塊看起來像地面的地，你一踩下去才發現不是。它會塌，然後包住你的腳，抓著不放。麻煩的地方不在髒，而在它會抓…更多收起
可以想成：一塊看起來像地面的地，你一踩下去才發現不是。它會塌，然後包住你的腳，抓著不放。麻煩的地方不在髒，而在它會抓人——而且你越用力拔，陷得越深。這個字走到哪裡都在說同一件事：人已經在裡面了，而且靠自己使力出不來。From the word’s history
Recorded from 1579, from quag plus mire; possibly a variant of the earlier quakemire, from quake plus mire — ground that shakes under you. The figurative use is recorded from 1775.
1579 年起有記錄，由 quag 加 mire 構成；一說是更早的 quakemire 的變體，也就是 quake（晃動）加 mire（泥沼）——踩下去會晃的地。用來講麻煩事的那一層，記錄從 1775 年開始。
Wiktionary entry for quagmire, etymology_text supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:118378192)
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