miasma
n. 瘴气; 烟雾弥漫的空气; 不良气氛或影响
You can describe something bad or confused that seems to be in the air all around you as a miasma .
As time went on, his ambition to be part of the US Supreme Court faded in a miasma of alcohol and despair.
随着时间的推移,他跻身美国最高法院的雄心壮志在弥漫着酒精和绝望气息的乌烟瘴气中消失殆尽。
1. an unwholesome atmosphere;
2. unhealthy vapors rising from the ground or other sources;
A grey miasma, neither cloud nor mist low in the sky and the atmosphere was stifling.
一些似云非云,似雾非雾的灰气低低的浮在空中,使人觉得憋气.
The two of them now a superstitious swamp devil, humming, hovering, and plowing through the miasma.
他和蜜蜂犹如迷信里的沼泽魔鬼, 嗡嗡叫着, 盘旋着, 在瘴气中翻腾.
Smoke from a bonfire of garbage mixes with the miasma of smog in the sky.
一股垃圾燃烧的浓烟与其他瘴气混杂,在天空中四处弥漫.
Changing water levels now at times unleash a miasma of disease from exposed sewage.
如今,大坝不时地改变水位,从暴露的污水释放出了疾病瘴气.
He wondered how his life had degenerated into this clawing miasma of raw unfulfilled need.
他不知道如何生活,他已蜕变为这扣瘴原料没有兑现的需要.