Bog

[bɒg] or [bɑɡ]

解釋/意思:

(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--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

(n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

(v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

整理:希欧多尔

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Morass, quagmire, slough, fen, marsh, swamp.

安娜贝尔整理

解釋/意思:

n. soft ground: a marsh or quagmire.—v.t. to sink or to entangle.—n. Bog′-butt′er a mineral substance resembling butter found in Irish bogs.—adj. Bogg′y.—ns. Bog′let Bog′land; Bog′-moss a genus of moss plants; Bog′-oak trunks of oak embedded in bogs and preserved from decay—of a deep black colour often used for making ornaments; Bog′-ore a kind of iron ore found in boggy land; Bog′-spav′in a lesion of the hock-joint of the horse consisting in distension of the capsule enclosing the joint usually arising suddenly from a sprain in action; Bog′-trot′ter one who lives in a boggy country hence an Irishman.

校對:西蒙