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.

巴里整理

• I took four lessons, and then I stuck fast in a grammatical bog. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It's the worst road to travel after dark that can be: there's no track at all over the bog. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Right across the lower part of the bog lay a miry path. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• A good rice field is a bog at all seasons, and at one season a bog covered with water. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• An immense bog, called Chat Moss, had to be crossed, and Stephenson was the only one of the engineers concerned who did not doubt whether such a crossing were really possible. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The traces of the bog were removed from it; the creases left by the wet smoothed out: it was quite decent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• For the bogs of technical stupidity and empty formalism are always near and always dangerous. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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