an area of low land that is always soft and wet because there is nowhere for the water to flow away to湿地；沼泽；草本沼泽- Cows were grazing on the marshes.牛群在湿地上吃草。🔊🔊
- After so much rain, the field had become a marsh (= a very wet area).大雨过后，田野变成了沼泽。
- The land is colonized by various types of marsh vegetation.这块地上长满了各种沼泽植物。
see also salt marshTopics Geographyc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + marshmarsh + nounpreposition- in a/the marsh
- on a/the marsh
See full entry Word OriginOld English mer(i)sc (perhaps influenced by late Latin mariscus ‘marsh’), of West Germanic origin.
