mire，morass，quagmire，lair ；

[例句] 他的人民在混乱不安的泥潭里越陷越深。 His people had fallen further and further into a quagmire of confusion.

[例句] 轮子在泥潭中陷得更深了。 The wheels sank deeper into the mire.

clay，dirt，earth ；

[例句] 她捧起疏松的泥土，任其缓缓地从指间漏下。 She gathered loose soil and let it filter slowly through her fingers.

[例句] 从山上冲刷下来的泥土就要让水电大坝淤塞了。 The soil washed from the hills is silting up the hydroelectric dams.

loach，mud fish ；

[例句] 泥鳅从我手中滑走了. The loach slipped from my hands.

[例句] 谁也抓不住这个湿漉漉的球, 它滑得像泥鳅. Nobody could catch the wet ball, it was as slippery as an eel.

mason，brickie ；

[例句] 离开学校后，他尝试过各种工作，如泥瓦匠、电影院引座员、运煤工。 After he left school, he tried his hand at a variety of jobs—bricklayer, cinema usher, coal man.

[例句] 他骑脚踏车去叫泥瓦匠. He pedaled off to summon a mason.

sposh ；

[例句] 黑色的稀泥限制了她的行动。 The black mud fettered her movements.

[例句] 祥子打算合合稀泥,把长脸一拉, 招呼她一声. Xiangzi wished to smooth things over and greet her as usual , but found he really couldn't.

puree ；

[例句] 我喜欢做果泥，只需要用一点糖把李子腌一下。 I like to make puree, using only enough sugar to preserve the plums.

[例句] 我们用莫林糖浆和果泥创作了许多鸡尾酒. A variety of cocktails were created all using Monin syrups and purees.

bricklayer，tiler，plasterer ；

[例句] 泥水匠斯塔布斯对这道使人敬畏的“法令”十分沮丧. Stubbs the plasterer was much downcast at this dreadful edict.

[例句] 他学泥水匠这一行. He learned the mason's craft.

mudcap，lute，stop-off，mastic ；

[例句] 珍妮启了封泥,信果然是给她写的. Jennie broke the seal of the note, which was addressed to her.

Devonian，devonian，devonian period ；

[例句] 在泥盆纪末期，30％的动物物种都灭绝了。 Near the end of Devonian times, thirty percent of all animal life vanished.

[例句] 收藏矿物 、 古生物学 、 中泥盆纪 、 二叠纪到早期的侏罗纪和白恶纪. Mineral, palaeontology, middle devonian, permian to early jurassic, and cretaceous.

marlite，[化] chalky clay ；

[例句] 利用泥灰岩加水热模拟实验探讨了泥灰岩的油气形成过程. Hydrocarbon - generating process of marl is discussed by hydrous pyrolysis simulation.

[例句] 经过现场应用,收到了较好的增产效果, 为华北油田泥灰岩储层改造措施找到了突破口. Applications have increased production, find a new approach for muddy limestone fracturing of Huabei oilfield.

[机] argillous，bolar ；

[例句] 有踩烂的青草与泥土的味道。 There was a smell of trampled grass and earth.

[例句] 薄暮充满紫丁香和新翻耕的泥土的香味. Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth.

freeness ；

[例句] 在高尔夫球场上，你必须训练自己做到不拘泥于细枝末节的理论。 Out on the course you must discipline yourself to let go of detailed theory.

[例句] 他想多了解有关神学上不拘泥教条的自由主义. He wants to know more about liberal latitudinarianism in theology.

peat ；

[例句] 把植物靠墙摆放，用泥煤盖住根部。 Lean the plants against a wall and cover the roots with peat.

[例句] 泥煤焦油的性质和由木材干馏所得到的焦油的性质相似. Peat tar has similar properties to the tar derived from the destructive distillation of wood.

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[例句] 我们陷入泥里时,牵拉更费劲了. The tug stiffened when we got into the mud.

[例句] 我的两只脚陷入泥中. My feet sank into the wet mud.

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[例句] 用水泥砌牢石头. Stones are bedded in cement.

[例句] 她用水泥抹墙，并趁它还没干时粘上贝壳。 She rendered the walls in cement and, while it was still wet, applied the shells.

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[例句] 苗条的天鹅和纤细的臭鼬在滑滑的黏泥上游泳. Slim swans and slender skunks swim in the slippery slime.

[例句] 而循环冷却水系统生物黏泥的产生主要是因系统发生漏油事故所致. And the main reason to bring biological sludge into circulating water system is oil - leaking accident.

claying ；

chamotte，fire clay，fireclay ；

[例句] 砌筑焦炉应采用合格成品火泥. Qualified finished fire clay shall be used.

（食物的糊状物） puree ；

[例句] 你把这些蔬菜煮成菜泥了. You've boiled these vegetables to a pulp.

[机] argillite，shale ；

[例句] 原地沉积为水平层理发育的暗色泥板岩. In situ deposits are dark shale with horizontal bedding.