quicksand

• n.[油圧]流砂、危険な状態

quick「生きる」、sand「砂」から。比喩的用法、ジレンマの語源。

quicksand (n.)

c. 1300, from Middle English quyk "living" (see quick (adj.)) + sond "sand" (see sand (n.)). Old English had cwecesund, but this might have meant "lively strait of water."

1. The sandbank was uncertain，like quicksand under his feet.

その砂防は安定しておらず、彼の足元は流砂を踏んでいるようだ。

2.I was about to sink into the quicksand of sin.

私は罪の深淵に陥ります。

3.The research seemed founded on quicksand .

この研究は流砂の上に建てられているように、基礎が極めて不安定である。

4.Sand under quick condition is often called quicksand .

通常、急速に流れる砂をフローサンドと呼ぶ。

5.I had penetrated the secret which the quicksand had kept from every other living creature.

流砂が世間に対して守っている秘密を暴いてくれた.