Quicksand
['kwɪksænd]
解释:
(noun.) a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down.
(noun.) a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy.
整理:米莉--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
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娱乐性解释：
To find yourself in quicksand while dreaming, you will meet with loss and deceit. If you are unable to overcome it, you will be involved in overwhelming misfortunes. For a young woman to be rescued by her lover from quicksand, she will possess a worthy and faithful husband, who will still remain her lover.
编辑:厄休拉
例句:
- We can go round by the coast, Mr. Franklin, said Betteredge; and get to the quicksand in that way with plenty of time to spare. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I had always had a notion that something would happen to me at the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- To run my hand along the Chain, when found, until I come to the part of it which stretches over the edge of the rocks, down into the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The Deeps of the Quicksand have got her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- He pointed to the south side--otherwise, the side which was not filled up by the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Is anything thrown into that quicksand of yours, ever thrown up on the surface again? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I wish to God we had thrown it into the quicksand! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- She has sunk the case, in the water or in the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- From that point, I have already traced the succession of events which led me to the astounding discovery at the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Between the two, shifting backwards and forwards at certain seasons of the year, lies the most horrible quicksand on the shores of Yorkshire. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- She snatched her hand off my shoulder, and suddenly pointed down to the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I had penetrated the secret which the quicksand had kept from every other living creature. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I may own the truth--with the quicksand waiting to hide me when the words are written. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I was thinking, sir, I answered, that I should like to shy the Diamond into the quicksand, and settle the question in THAT way. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I own I closed my eyes at the moment when the point of the stick first entered the quicksand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Sinking shafts through quicksands by artificially freezing the sand, so as to form a firm frozen wall immediately around the area where the shaft is to be sunk, is a recent new idea. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
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