bog
意味
- 沼地,沼沢地
- …を沼にはまらせる
- 沼にはまる
例文
We were bogged down in a morass of paperwork.
私たちは書類事務の泥沼に陥っていた。
Grounding and other bog-standard punishments didn't get through to his son at all.
外出禁止とか、その他のありふれた罰を与えても、彼の息子には全く通じなかった。
You have an English test tomorrow, so don't get bogged down in your math homework tonight.
明日は英語のテストだろう、だったら今晩は数学の宿題にかかずらわっちゃだめだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos. The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”). Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English.