Instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare. 冲突不但没有很快结束,而且还加剧成为堑壕战。
The hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare. 意识到选举活动已成为一种堑壕战,他的通过出色的竞选技巧来制造差距的希望化为了泡影。
a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win;
"the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare"
a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other;
"instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare"