and that’s when motorists don’t bog down in multi-day traffic jams as they did last summer.(這還是在司機沒有遭遇連日堵車被困在路上的情況下，去年夏天就發生了這樣的情況。)

Vast stretches of peat bog surrounding the city have dried out and caught fire covering Moscow with choking smog.(城市周圍大面積分布的泥炭沼澤已經干涸著火，將莫斯科籠罩在令人窒息的煙霧中。)

Wolfowitz says the World Bank wants to be helpful and will not bog down the process by insisting on being the lead agency.(沃爾福威茨說，世界銀行希望有所幫助，不會由于堅持認為它是首要機構而阻礙這一進程。)

Bog off, I'm trying to sleep!(走開，我要睡覺啦！)

So who CARES what the bog thinks?(誰會在乎泥水池沼在想什么呢？)

They had a cinnamon-like herb called bog myrtle, but it was the Romans who introduced many of the herbs and vegetables that we now know and love.(他們有類似肉桂的草本植物名為桃金娘，但是是古羅馬人引進了很多我們現在了解并且十分喜歡的草本植物和蔬菜。)

The bog can decompose for hundreds of metres round every turbine, potentially releasing millions of tonnes of carbon.(每個渦輪機周圍幾百米內的沼澤地腐爛分解后，很有可能釋放出幾百萬噸的碳。)

One day, while trying to 1)eke out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog.(有一天，他正在地里干活為家人謀生計，突然聽見附近沼澤地里傳來了呼救聲。)

"We also built bog bridges, " Macie says. "You need to take the supportive logs underneath and remove their bark because the bark can rot quickly."(“我們還建了沼澤橋，”馬西埃(Macie)說，“你需要將一些支撐的原木放在下面，去掉上面的樹皮，因為它們腐爛的很快。”)

The Storflaket permafrost plateau bog near Abisko in northern Sweden shows cracks at its borders due to thawing of the permafrost.(在靠近瑞典北部阿比斯庫的Storflaket高原多年凍土沼澤由于凍土融化在其邊緣處出現了裂縫。)

用作動詞(v.)

(使)陷入泥沼,(使)陷入困境(cause to) sink (as if) into a bog
bog down

The talks with the staff bogged down on the question of working hours.

與員工的談判，在有關工作時間問題上陷入了僵局。

bog sb/sth ? down

The tractor is bogged down in the mud.

拖拉機陷入了泥沼。

1. bog down : 陷入困境；

用作名詞(n.)

Don't walk across that field; it's a bog.
不要穿過那片野地，那是個爛泥潭。The path goes across an area of bog.
小路穿過一片沼澤。

He would proceed awkwardly across the mud, but soon became bogged.