morass
A tract of soft, wet groundA tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
» We were bogged down in a morass of paperwork.
Wir versanken in einem Morast an Papierkram.
Мы увязли в трясине бумажной работы.
Значение
значений: 2A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
боло́тоbolóto, тряси́наtrjasína
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
(переносно)Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
тряси́наtrjasína
Примеры
предложений: 3We were bogged down in a morass of paperwork.
Мы увязли в трясине бумажной работы.
deWir versanken in einem Morast an Papierkram.
His father drank himself into a morass of self-pity.
Его отец напился до трясины самосожаления.
The morass of regulations is delaying the project.
Переводы
языков: 7По значениям 1
Происхождение
From Dutch moeras (“marsh, swamp”), an alteration (with influence from Dutch moer (“moor”)From Dutch moeras (“marsh, swamp”), an alteration (with influence from Dutch moer (“moor”)) of a direct descendant of Middle Dutch marasch (“marsh”). The Middle Dutch word is a borrowing from Old French mareis, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk. Doublet of marish and marsh, and linked in part to moor. Compare quagmire.
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