Definition of bog in English:

bog

nounPlural bogs bɒɡ

1An area of wet muddy ground that is too soft to support a heavy body.
泥沼，沼泽
a peat bog
泥炭沼。
figurative a bog of legal complications
〈喻〉一大堆棘手的法律纠纷。
mass noun the island is a wilderness of bog and loch
那个岛屿遍布荒凉的泥沼和滨海湖。
Example sentencesExamples
- Soggy areas called peat bogs have developed in parts of the country.
- Help to open up an area of peat bog by cutting and burning small trees at Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Foulshaw Moss, near Witherslack, on Saturday.
- This is particularly relevant to the placement of bodies in bogs or in settlements.
- The bog road was too soft for his heavy horse and cart to traverse, so he had to condescend to ask his two neighbours to put out and take home the turf with their donkeys and creels.
- The disused railway line makes the bog and surrounding areas easily accessible from both ends.
- Lectures this year focus on stem cell research, homeopathy, wildlife in Australia, bodies found preserved in bogs and astronomy.
- Even just a little rain will turn this poorly drained ground into a bog.
- Though successful, the area was reduced to a muddy bog.
- Agricultural land and settlements cover a higher proportion of the land than in the northern study area, but open bogs are less common.
- In 1996 the Air Force's 75th anniversary show was cancelled because cyclonic rains turned parking areas into bogs.
- Because of the many small, semi-open bogs and areas of saplings, the forests are highly fragmented.
- The shortage of rifles necessitated that the manual of arms be practiced in shifts, and six hours of daily drill in the melting snow turned the camp grounds into a bog.
- I hope Shell will use some of their expertise when they are removing the peat from the bog at Bellanaboy.
- Ambitious schemes are also in the pipeline to replant some of the park's lost woodlands and also to restore large areas of grasslands, bogs and moorland.
- Swamps, bogs, and lowland areas in general are wonderful places to explore once the water has frozen and a good base of snow covers the ground.
- The main reason for the haste was the weather which could have broken at any time bringing all haulage work on the soft bog to an end.
- The fine weather of August has brought (albeit a little later than usual) an influx of people from all areas to the bog.
- Rare wetland plants growing in the path of the £47.9 million three-mile road, which is due to be completed by autumn, were transported to other areas of the bog before work began.
- Two counselors were walking back to camp from a cookout with their cabin through a bog area with open spans of water.
- Blanket bogs also cover huge areas in cold, wet temperate zones such as northern Scotland, coastal areas of Norway, and the tip of South America.
Synonyms
marsh, marshland, swamp, swampland, sump, mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, carr
1. 1.1Ecology Wetland with acid peaty soil, typically dominated by peat moss.
  〔生态〕酸性泥炭湿地。比较FEN ¹
  Compare with fen
  Example sentencesExamples
  Walk through the mountains, bogs, and coastal islands of Ireland's picturesque West Country.
  Peat-free products are those which are not sourced from the natural peat bogs and peatlands.
  The terrain here is flat, and the poor drainage encourages the creation of wetlands and bogs.
  They typically nest in sedge meadows, muskeg bogs, or coastal wetlands.
  A showy grass known as foxtail barley was common along the highway, while here and there we saw bogs dominated by black spruce and larch.
  Synonyms
  marsh, marshland, swamp, swampland, sump, mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, carr
2the bogBritish informal The toilet.
〈英，非正式〉厕所
Synonyms
lavatory, wc, water closet, convenience, public convenience, facilities, urinal, privy, latrine, outhouse, earth closet, jakes

verbbogs, bogged, bogging bɒɡ

1be/get bogged downBe or become stuck in mud or wet ground.
使（车辆，人，动物）陷入泥沼（或湿地）
the family Rover became bogged down on the beach road
这部罗孚牌家庭越野车陷入海滩路边的泥沼中。
Example sentencesExamples
- He showed signs of ability at Ascot 11 days ago, but got bogged down in the heavy ground.
- The seven-year-old, who won the Novices' Chase at Sandown in December, was bogged down in mud last time.
- The potential danger he faced was highlighted last night as police said an unnamed British tourist died after his car got bogged down in loose sand in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert.
- They unfortunately entered harsh and rugged Kurdistan just as winter was setting in, they tried to cross the mountains before the snows made them impassable but got bogged down halfway across.
- Originally there had been fifty of these machines but these thirty ton machines could not cope with the harsh lunar landscape of the churned up ground and fourteen had broken down or got bogged down.
1. 1.1 Be prevented from making progress in a task or activity.
  you must not get bogged down in detail
  〈喻〉你不必纠缠于细节之中。
  Example sentencesExamples
  At this stage we do not need to get bogged down in well-rehearsed arguments about the extent to which people are really free.
  Yet it is the absence of concrete, compelling details that allows these poems to get bogged down in their juvenile fascination with the verbal act as such.
  It has spared me of the kind of emotional and financial responsibilities that make one get bogged down with family life.
  Time and time again they were bogged down by wasted opportunities.
  All its talk of expansion will inevitably be bogged down in bureaucratic delay, and the building will itself cause disruption.
  Scotland on Sunday revealed 18 months ago that a previous project had to be scrapped after getting bogged down in funding delays.
  You don't want to try to change too much and get bogged down in detail.
  Both these projects have been bogged down by constant delays.
  It is bogged down in a ground war it did not expect and does not have sufficient troops easily to deal with, and which is paralysing its capacity to act elsewhere.
  In five months from January to May, 1944, the Allied troops were bogged down in a street-by-street battle.
  Italian football can get bogged down in tactics.
  For the moment, the project is bogged down in bureaucracy and can't get off the ground because of government inaction.
  Breen sticks closely to the politics, avoiding getting bogged down in the quagmire of personal detail.
  The novel picks up momentum and becomes more affecting as it moves forward, leaving behind the early chapters that sometimes get bogged down with the family's past.
  We credit your spontaneous side; you tend to live in the moment, and you don't get bogged down by inhibitions like most women your age.
  Two attempts to move back to Chile were bogged down by unresolved custody issues over Matias.
  All right, I don't want to get bogged down in all that.
  I've sort of promised myself that I'll have it finished by the end of the week and, unless I get bogged down in something that needs a bit of research, I reckon one more day will see the end of it.
  The whole film is light and delicate, but is bogged down by its budget constraints and a script laden with endless dialogue and first-person narration.
  This has all the hallmarks of a Spielberg classic - it does not get bogged down in politics, science and strategy, but concentrates on big emotion and intimate drama with a well-written script.
  Synonyms
  mire, stick, trap, entangle, ensnare, embroil, encumber, catch up
  hamper, hinder, obstruct, impede, halt, stop, delay, stall, slow down, detain, hold in check, restrain
  swamp, overwhelm, overpower, overburden
2bog offBritish informal no object Go away.
〈英，非正式〉走开，离去
I told him to bog off
我让他离开。
Example sentencesExamples
- It's traumatic when you find that someone you don't really know but who you've always assumed would be there has bogged off.
- I told them to bog off and go and do their own dirty work.
- Everyone in the PR department had bogged off to a winery for the evening.
- If she wants champagne she can bog off to the living room.
- This is because Bromley is more than six miles from Charing Cross, and once you are outside that line, a cabbie can tell you to bog off.
- Now bog off and don't come back till you've got something worthwhile to show us.
- If she had hit me and told me to bog off I would at least have thought she wasn't worth going after.
- She really drags him down, but he's too sweet to tell her to bog off like he wants to.
- Who decided that the operating system should be allowed to interrupt whatever the user is doing at five minute intervals after the user has told it to bog off and wait?
- When it comes to being impatient, it seems men are much worse that women and are only prepared to hang on for three minutes before bogging off somewhere else.
- As for my bogging off, I can not oblige until such time as Melissa bars me.
- Bog off back to where you came from.
Synonyms
go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight
3bog inAustralian NZ no object Start a task enthusiastically.
〈澳／新西兰〉热情地干起来
if he saw a trucker in difficulty, he would just bog in and give a hand
如果他看到一个货运汽车司机有困难的话，他会非常热情地给予帮助。

Origin

Middle English: from Irish or Scottish Gaelic bogach, from bog 'soft'.

In Gaelic bog means ‘soft’, and this is the source of our word. In the slang sense ‘toilet’, bog was originally bog-house, which is recorded as early as 1665. The British Labour Party spin doctor Alistair Campbell caused widespread offence in 2001 when he said that ‘The day of the bog-standard comprehensive school is over’. Bog standard is first recorded in print as recently as the mid 1960s, although people working in the British motor industry remember it being used a little before this. It may be a reference to bog in the sense ‘lavatory’, but it is more likely to be an alteration of box standard, meaning either ‘made in a standard form and packaged in a box’ or ‘shaped like a box, plainly designed, and without refinements’.

Rhymes

agog, befog, blog, clog, cog, dog, flog, fog, grog, hog, Hogg, hotdog, jog, log, nog, prog, slog, smog, snog, sprog, tautog, tog, trog

Definition of bog in US English:

bog

noun

1Wet muddy ground too soft to support a heavy body.
泥沼，沼泽
a peat bog
泥炭沼。
figurative a bog of legal complications
〈喻〉一大堆棘手的法律纠纷。
the island is a wilderness of bog
那个岛屿遍布荒凉的泥沼和滨海湖。
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1996 the Air Force's 75th anniversary show was cancelled because cyclonic rains turned parking areas into bogs.
- Even just a little rain will turn this poorly drained ground into a bog.
- The shortage of rifles necessitated that the manual of arms be practiced in shifts, and six hours of daily drill in the melting snow turned the camp grounds into a bog.
- Blanket bogs also cover huge areas in cold, wet temperate zones such as northern Scotland, coastal areas of Norway, and the tip of South America.
- Swamps, bogs, and lowland areas in general are wonderful places to explore once the water has frozen and a good base of snow covers the ground.
- Rare wetland plants growing in the path of the £47.9 million three-mile road, which is due to be completed by autumn, were transported to other areas of the bog before work began.
- Lectures this year focus on stem cell research, homeopathy, wildlife in Australia, bodies found preserved in bogs and astronomy.
- Ambitious schemes are also in the pipeline to replant some of the park's lost woodlands and also to restore large areas of grasslands, bogs and moorland.
- Help to open up an area of peat bog by cutting and burning small trees at Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Foulshaw Moss, near Witherslack, on Saturday.
- The main reason for the haste was the weather which could have broken at any time bringing all haulage work on the soft bog to an end.
- The fine weather of August has brought (albeit a little later than usual) an influx of people from all areas to the bog.
- This is particularly relevant to the placement of bodies in bogs or in settlements.
- The bog road was too soft for his heavy horse and cart to traverse, so he had to condescend to ask his two neighbours to put out and take home the turf with their donkeys and creels.
- I hope Shell will use some of their expertise when they are removing the peat from the bog at Bellanaboy.
- Soggy areas called peat bogs have developed in parts of the country.
- Two counselors were walking back to camp from a cookout with their cabin through a bog area with open spans of water.
- The disused railway line makes the bog and surrounding areas easily accessible from both ends.
- Agricultural land and settlements cover a higher proportion of the land than in the northern study area, but open bogs are less common.
- Though successful, the area was reduced to a muddy bog.
- Because of the many small, semi-open bogs and areas of saplings, the forests are highly fragmented.
Synonyms
marsh, marshland, swamp, swampland, sump, mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, carr
1. 1.1Ecology Wetland with acid peaty soil, typically dominated by peat moss.
  〔生态〕酸性泥炭湿地。比较FEN ¹
  Compare with fen
  Example sentencesExamples
  A showy grass known as foxtail barley was common along the highway, while here and there we saw bogs dominated by black spruce and larch.
  Peat-free products are those which are not sourced from the natural peat bogs and peatlands.
  They typically nest in sedge meadows, muskeg bogs, or coastal wetlands.
  The terrain here is flat, and the poor drainage encourages the creation of wetlands and bogs.
  Walk through the mountains, bogs, and coastal islands of Ireland's picturesque West Country.
  Synonyms
  marsh, marshland, swamp, swampland, sump, mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, carr
2usually the bogBritish informal A bathroom.
Synonyms
lavatory, wc, water closet, convenience, public convenience, facilities, urinal, privy, latrine, outhouse, earth closet, jakes

verb

[with object]usually be bogged down

1Cause (a vehicle, person, or animal) to become stuck in mud or wet ground.
使（车辆，人，动物）陷入泥沼（或湿地）
the car became bogged down on the beach road
这部罗孚牌家庭越野车陷入海滩路边的泥沼中。
Example sentencesExamples
- Originally there had been fifty of these machines but these thirty ton machines could not cope with the harsh lunar landscape of the churned up ground and fourteen had broken down or got bogged down.
- The seven-year-old, who won the Novices' Chase at Sandown in December, was bogged down in mud last time.
- They unfortunately entered harsh and rugged Kurdistan just as winter was setting in, they tried to cross the mountains before the snows made them impassable but got bogged down halfway across.
- The potential danger he faced was highlighted last night as police said an unnamed British tourist died after his car got bogged down in loose sand in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert.
- He showed signs of ability at Ascot 11 days ago, but got bogged down in the heavy ground.
1. 1.1be bogged down (of a person or process) be unable to make progress.
  you must not get bogged down in detail
  〈喻〉你不必纠缠于细节之中。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For the moment, the project is bogged down in bureaucracy and can't get off the ground because of government inaction.
  At this stage we do not need to get bogged down in well-rehearsed arguments about the extent to which people are really free.
  This has all the hallmarks of a Spielberg classic - it does not get bogged down in politics, science and strategy, but concentrates on big emotion and intimate drama with a well-written script.
  The novel picks up momentum and becomes more affecting as it moves forward, leaving behind the early chapters that sometimes get bogged down with the family's past.
  In five months from January to May, 1944, the Allied troops were bogged down in a street-by-street battle.
  Scotland on Sunday revealed 18 months ago that a previous project had to be scrapped after getting bogged down in funding delays.
  All right, I don't want to get bogged down in all that.
  The whole film is light and delicate, but is bogged down by its budget constraints and a script laden with endless dialogue and first-person narration.
  It has spared me of the kind of emotional and financial responsibilities that make one get bogged down with family life.
  Yet it is the absence of concrete, compelling details that allows these poems to get bogged down in their juvenile fascination with the verbal act as such.
  Two attempts to move back to Chile were bogged down by unresolved custody issues over Matias.
  Italian football can get bogged down in tactics.
  We credit your spontaneous side; you tend to live in the moment, and you don't get bogged down by inhibitions like most women your age.
  All its talk of expansion will inevitably be bogged down in bureaucratic delay, and the building will itself cause disruption.
  Both these projects have been bogged down by constant delays.
  You don't want to try to change too much and get bogged down in detail.
  Time and time again they were bogged down by wasted opportunities.
  Breen sticks closely to the politics, avoiding getting bogged down in the quagmire of personal detail.
  I've sort of promised myself that I'll have it finished by the end of the week and, unless I get bogged down in something that needs a bit of research, I reckon one more day will see the end of it.
  It is bogged down in a ground war it did not expect and does not have sufficient troops easily to deal with, and which is paralysing its capacity to act elsewhere.
  Synonyms
  mire, stick, trap, entangle, ensnare, embroil, encumber, catch up

Origin

Middle English: from Irish or Scottish Gaelic bogach, from bog ‘soft’.

词汇	bog
释义	Definition of bog in English: bog nounPlural bogs bɒɡ 1An area of wet muddy ground that is too soft to support a heavy body. 泥沼，沼泽 a peat bog 泥炭沼。 figurative a bog of legal complications 〈喻〉一大堆棘手的法律纠纷。 mass noun the island is a wilderness of bog and loch 那个岛屿遍布荒凉的泥沼和滨海湖。 Example sentencesExamples Soggy areas called peat bogs have developed in parts of the country. Help to open up an area of peat bog by cutting and burning small trees at Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Foulshaw Moss, near Witherslack, on Saturday. This is particularly relevant to the placement of bodies in bogs or in settlements. The bog road was too soft for his heavy horse and cart to traverse, so he had to condescend to ask his two neighbours to put out and take home the turf with their donkeys and creels. The disused railway line makes the bog and surrounding areas easily accessible from both ends. Lectures this year focus on stem cell research, homeopathy, wildlife in Australia, bodies found preserved in bogs and astronomy. Even just a little rain will turn this poorly drained ground into a bog. Though successful, the area was reduced to a muddy bog. Agricultural land and settlements cover a higher proportion of the land than in the northern study area, but open bogs are less common. In 1996 the Air Force's 75th anniversary show was cancelled because cyclonic rains turned parking areas into bogs. Because of the many small, semi-open bogs and areas of saplings, the forests are highly fragmented. The shortage of rifles necessitated that the manual of arms be practiced in shifts, and six hours of daily drill in the melting snow turned the camp grounds into a bog. I hope Shell will use some of their expertise when they are removing the peat from the bog at Bellanaboy. Ambitious schemes are also in the pipeline to replant some of the park's lost woodlands and also to restore large areas of grasslands, bogs and moorland. Swamps, bogs, and lowland areas in general are wonderful places to explore once the water has frozen and a good base of snow covers the ground. The main reason for the haste was the weather which could have broken at any time bringing all haulage work on the soft bog to an end. The fine weather of August has brought (albeit a little later than usual) an influx of people from all areas to the bog. Rare wetland plants growing in the path of the £47.9 million three-mile road, which is due to be completed by autumn, were transported to other areas of the bog before work began. Two counselors were walking back to camp from a cookout with their cabin through a bog area with open spans of water. Blanket bogs also cover huge areas in cold, wet temperate zones such as northern Scotland, coastal areas of Norway, and the tip of South America. Synonyms marsh, marshland, swamp, swampland, sump, mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, carr 1.1Ecology Wetland with acid peaty soil, typically dominated by peat moss. 〔生态〕酸性泥炭湿地。比较FEN ¹ Compare with fen Example sentencesExamples Walk through the mountains, bogs, and coastal islands of Ireland's picturesque West Country. Peat-free products are those which are not sourced from the natural peat bogs and peatlands. The terrain here is flat, and the poor drainage encourages the creation of wetlands and bogs. They typically nest in sedge meadows, muskeg bogs, or coastal wetlands. A showy grass known as foxtail barley was common along the highway, while here and there we saw bogs dominated by black spruce and larch. Synonyms marsh, marshland, swamp, swampland, sump, mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, carr 2the bogBritish informal The toilet. 〈英，非正式〉厕所 Synonyms lavatory, wc, water closet, convenience, public convenience, facilities, urinal, privy, latrine, outhouse, earth closet, jakes verbbogs, bogged, bogging bɒɡ 1be/get bogged downBe or become stuck in mud or wet ground. 使（车辆，人，动物）陷入泥沼（或湿地） the family Rover became bogged down on the beach road 这部罗孚牌家庭越野车陷入海滩路边的泥沼中。 Example sentencesExamples He showed signs of ability at Ascot 11 days ago, but got bogged down in the heavy ground. The seven-year-old, who won the Novices' Chase at Sandown in December, was bogged down in mud last time. The potential danger he faced was highlighted last night as police said an unnamed British tourist died after his car got bogged down in loose sand in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert. They unfortunately entered harsh and rugged Kurdistan just as winter was setting in, they tried to cross the mountains before the snows made them impassable but got bogged down halfway across. Originally there had been fifty of these machines but these thirty ton machines could not cope with the harsh lunar landscape of the churned up ground and fourteen had broken down or got bogged down. 1.1 Be prevented from making progress in a task or activity. you must not get bogged down in detail 〈喻〉你不必纠缠于细节之中。 Example sentencesExamples At this stage we do not need to get bogged down in well-rehearsed arguments about the extent to which people are really free. Yet it is the absence of concrete, compelling details that allows these poems to get bogged down in their juvenile fascination with the verbal act as such. It has spared me of the kind of emotional and financial responsibilities that make one get bogged down with family life. Time and time again they were bogged down by wasted opportunities. All its talk of expansion will inevitably be bogged down in bureaucratic delay, and the building will itself cause disruption. Scotland on Sunday revealed 18 months ago that a previous project had to be scrapped after getting bogged down in funding delays. You don't want to try to change too much and get bogged down in detail. Both these projects have been bogged down by constant delays. It is bogged down in a ground war it did not expect and does not have sufficient troops easily to deal with, and which is paralysing its capacity to act elsewhere. In five months from January to May, 1944, the Allied troops were bogged down in a street-by-street battle. Italian football can get bogged down in tactics. For the moment, the project is bogged down in bureaucracy and can't get off the ground because of government inaction. Breen sticks closely to the politics, avoiding getting bogged down in the quagmire of personal detail. The novel picks up momentum and becomes more affecting as it moves forward, leaving behind the early chapters that sometimes get bogged down with the family's past. We credit your spontaneous side; you tend to live in the moment, and you don't get bogged down by inhibitions like most women your age. Two attempts to move back to Chile were bogged down by unresolved custody issues over Matias. All right, I don't want to get bogged down in all that. I've sort of promised myself that I'll have it finished by the end of the week and, unless I get bogged down in something that needs a bit of research, I reckon one more day will see the end of it. The whole film is light and delicate, but is bogged down by its budget constraints and a script laden with endless dialogue and first-person narration. This has all the hallmarks of a Spielberg classic - it does not get bogged down in politics, science and strategy, but concentrates on big emotion and intimate drama with a well-written script. Synonyms mire, stick, trap, entangle, ensnare, embroil, encumber, catch up hamper, hinder, obstruct, impede, halt, stop, delay, stall, slow down, detain, hold in check, restrain swamp, overwhelm, overpower, overburden 2bog offBritish informal no object Go away. 〈英，非正式〉走开，离去 I told him to bog off 我让他离开。 Example sentencesExamples It's traumatic when you find that someone you don't really know but who you've always assumed would be there has bogged off. I told them to bog off and go and do their own dirty work. Everyone in the PR department had bogged off to a winery for the evening. If she wants champagne she can bog off to the living room. This is because Bromley is more than six miles from Charing Cross, and once you are outside that line, a cabbie can tell you to bog off. Now bog off and don't come back till you've got something worthwhile to show us. If she had hit me and told me to bog off I would at least have thought she wasn't worth going after. She really drags him down, but he's too sweet to tell her to bog off like he wants to. Who decided that the operating system should be allowed to interrupt whatever the user is doing at five minute intervals after the user has told it to bog off and wait? When it comes to being impatient, it seems men are much worse that women and are only prepared to hang on for three minutes before bogging off somewhere else. As for my bogging off, I can not oblige until such time as Melissa bars me. Bog off back to where you came from. Synonyms go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight 3bog inAustralian NZ no object Start a task enthusiastically. 〈澳／新西兰〉热情地干起来 if he saw a trucker in difficulty, he would just bog in and give a hand 如果他看到一个货运汽车司机有困难的话，他会非常热情地给予帮助。 Origin Middle English: from Irish or Scottish Gaelic bogach, from bog 'soft'. In Gaelic bog means ‘soft’, and this is the source of our word. In the slang sense ‘toilet’, bog was originally bog-house, which is recorded as early as 1665. The British Labour Party spin doctor Alistair Campbell caused widespread offence in 2001 when he said that ‘The day of the bog-standard comprehensive school is over’. Bog standard is first recorded in print as recently as the mid 1960s, although people working in the British motor industry remember it being used a little before this. It may be a reference to bog in the sense ‘lavatory’, but it is more likely to be an alteration of box standard, meaning either ‘made in a standard form and packaged in a box’ or ‘shaped like a box, plainly designed, and without refinements’. Rhymes agog, befog, blog, clog, cog, dog, flog, fog, grog, hog, Hogg, hotdog, jog, log, nog, prog, slog, smog, snog, sprog, tautog, tog, trog Definition of bog in US English: bog noun 1Wet muddy ground too soft to support a heavy body. 泥沼，沼泽 a peat bog 泥炭沼。 figurative a bog of legal complications 〈喻〉一大堆棘手的法律纠纷。 the island is a wilderness of bog 那个岛屿遍布荒凉的泥沼和滨海湖。 Example sentencesExamples In 1996 the Air Force's 75th anniversary show was cancelled because cyclonic rains turned parking areas into bogs. Even just a little rain will turn this poorly drained ground into a bog. The shortage of rifles necessitated that the manual of arms be practiced in shifts, and six hours of daily drill in the melting snow turned the camp grounds into a bog. Blanket bogs also cover huge areas in cold, wet temperate zones such as northern Scotland, coastal areas of Norway, and the tip of South America. Swamps, bogs, and lowland areas in general are wonderful places to explore once the water has frozen and a good base of snow covers the ground. Rare wetland plants growing in the path of the £47.9 million three-mile road, which is due to be completed by autumn, were transported to other areas of the bog before work began. Lectures this year focus on stem cell research, homeopathy, wildlife in Australia, bodies found preserved in bogs and astronomy. Ambitious schemes are also in the pipeline to replant some of the park's lost woodlands and also to restore large areas of grasslands, bogs and moorland. Help to open up an area of peat bog by cutting and burning small trees at Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Foulshaw Moss, near Witherslack, on Saturday. The main reason for the haste was the weather which could have broken at any time bringing all haulage work on the soft bog to an end. The fine weather of August has brought (albeit a little later than usual) an influx of people from all areas to the bog. This is particularly relevant to the placement of bodies in bogs or in settlements. The bog road was too soft for his heavy horse and cart to traverse, so he had to condescend to ask his two neighbours to put out and take home the turf with their donkeys and creels. I hope Shell will use some of their expertise when they are removing the peat from the bog at Bellanaboy. Soggy areas called peat bogs have developed in parts of the country. Two counselors were walking back to camp from a cookout with their cabin through a bog area with open spans of water. The disused railway line makes the bog and surrounding areas easily accessible from both ends. Agricultural land and settlements cover a higher proportion of the land than in the northern study area, but open bogs are less common. Though successful, the area was reduced to a muddy bog. Because of the many small, semi-open bogs and areas of saplings, the forests are highly fragmented. Synonyms marsh, marshland, swamp, swampland, sump, mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, carr 1.1Ecology Wetland with acid peaty soil, typically dominated by peat moss. 〔生态〕酸性泥炭湿地。比较FEN ¹ Compare with fen Example sentencesExamples A showy grass known as foxtail barley was common along the highway, while here and there we saw bogs dominated by black spruce and larch. Peat-free products are those which are not sourced from the natural peat bogs and peatlands. They typically nest in sedge meadows, muskeg bogs, or coastal wetlands. The terrain here is flat, and the poor drainage encourages the creation of wetlands and bogs. Walk through the mountains, bogs, and coastal islands of Ireland's picturesque West Country. Synonyms marsh, marshland, swamp, swampland, sump, mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, carr 2usually the bogBritish informal A bathroom. Synonyms lavatory, wc, water closet, convenience, public convenience, facilities, urinal, privy, latrine, outhouse, earth closet, jakes verb [with object]usually be bogged down 1Cause (a vehicle, person, or animal) to become stuck in mud or wet ground. 使（车辆，人，动物）陷入泥沼（或湿地） the car became bogged down on the beach road 这部罗孚牌家庭越野车陷入海滩路边的泥沼中。 Example sentencesExamples Originally there had been fifty of these machines but these thirty ton machines could not cope with the harsh lunar landscape of the churned up ground and fourteen had broken down or got bogged down. The seven-year-old, who won the Novices' Chase at Sandown in December, was bogged down in mud last time. They unfortunately entered harsh and rugged Kurdistan just as winter was setting in, they tried to cross the mountains before the snows made them impassable but got bogged down halfway across. The potential danger he faced was highlighted last night as police said an unnamed British tourist died after his car got bogged down in loose sand in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert. He showed signs of ability at Ascot 11 days ago, but got bogged down in the heavy ground. 1.1be bogged down (of a person or process) be unable to make progress. you must not get bogged down in detail 〈喻〉你不必纠缠于细节之中。 Example sentencesExamples For the moment, the project is bogged down in bureaucracy and can't get off the ground because of government inaction. At this stage we do not need to get bogged down in well-rehearsed arguments about the extent to which people are really free. This has all the hallmarks of a Spielberg classic - it does not get bogged down in politics, science and strategy, but concentrates on big emotion and intimate drama with a well-written script. The novel picks up momentum and becomes more affecting as it moves forward, leaving behind the early chapters that sometimes get bogged down with the family's past. In five months from January to May, 1944, the Allied troops were bogged down in a street-by-street battle. Scotland on Sunday revealed 18 months ago that a previous project had to be scrapped after getting bogged down in funding delays. All right, I don't want to get bogged down in all that. The whole film is light and delicate, but is bogged down by its budget constraints and a script laden with endless dialogue and first-person narration. It has spared me of the kind of emotional and financial responsibilities that make one get bogged down with family life. Yet it is the absence of concrete, compelling details that allows these poems to get bogged down in their juvenile fascination with the verbal act as such. Two attempts to move back to Chile were bogged down by unresolved custody issues over Matias. Italian football can get bogged down in tactics. We credit your spontaneous side; you tend to live in the moment, and you don't get bogged down by inhibitions like most women your age. All its talk of expansion will inevitably be bogged down in bureaucratic delay, and the building will itself cause disruption. Both these projects have been bogged down by constant delays. You don't want to try to change too much and get bogged down in detail. Time and time again they were bogged down by wasted opportunities. Breen sticks closely to the politics, avoiding getting bogged down in the quagmire of personal detail. I've sort of promised myself that I'll have it finished by the end of the week and, unless I get bogged down in something that needs a bit of research, I reckon one more day will see the end of it. It is bogged down in a ground war it did not expect and does not have sufficient troops easily to deal with, and which is paralysing its capacity to act elsewhere. Synonyms mire, stick, trap, entangle, ensnare, embroil, encumber, catch up Origin Middle English: from Irish or Scottish Gaelic bogach, from bog ‘soft’.
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