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quicksand
流沙

quicksand area
流沙带

destiny quicksand
戏命流沙

quicksand waterfall flow
流沙瀑流

eternal river quicksand
万古恒河流沙

eternal river quicksand formation
恒河流沙阵

you know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.
在经验增长的同时， 我们却丢失了简单的语言。

the people must be reassured that they can and indeed will rise from the quicksand of poverty through the promise of development.
必须使人民相信,通过发展的希望,他们可以而且确实将摆脱穷困的陷井。

people hate this. it's what marianne lafrance calls "standing in social quicksand."
大家都不喜欢这种方式。这就是 marianne lafrance 所谓的 "陷入社交流沙中"

but it's a hard hurdle because we got into this legal quicksand because we woke up in the 1960s to all these really bad values: racism, gender discrimination, pollution -- they were bad values. and we wanted to create a legal system where no one could have bad values anymore.
但难点在于我们已经陷入了法律流沙中 因为我们在六十年代唤醒了这些 特别邪恶的价值观，种族主义， 性别歧视，污染。 这些是很邪恶的价值观。并且我们希望创造一个法律系统， 一个人们不再能抱有邪恶价值观的法律系统。