enigma
谜团,谜题,谜底,谜一样的东西
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plural e·nig·mas; Chiefly Archaic e·nig·ma·ta [uh-nig-muh-tuh]. /əˈnɪg mə tə/.
- : a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation: His disappearance is an enigma that has given rise to much speculation.
- : a person of puzzling or contradictory character: To me he has always been an enigma, one minute completely insensitive, the next moved to tears.
- : a saying, question, picture, etc., containing a hidden meaning; riddle.
- : a German-built enciphering machine developed for commercial use in the early 1920s and later adapted and appropriated by German and other Axis powers for military use through World War II.
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Despite being a significant portion and growing force on the internet for over a decade now Gen Z remains an enigma for many media companies and brands.
To Varki, glycans are still one of the greatest enigmas of the biological universe.
As a man, Malcolm X was an enigma, transforming himself multiple times in his short life.
Even as he ascends to the top of China’s billionaire class, Zhong remains an enigma.
Box has always been a bit of an enigma for Wall Street, and perhaps for enterprise software in general.
As great as this feat was, an equally demanding test followed: to conceal from the Nazis that Enigma had been beaten.
Madame Cézanne is ultimately about the figure in the portraits rather than the person, who remains a tantalizing enigma.
He was a paragon of masculinity—a tall, dark, and impossibly handsome enigma.
The name is "an enigma even to me," Taylor says -- an appropriately mysterious moniker to make spiritual music under.
Lil B is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a song about Ellen Degeneres.
To Lucy Warrender, who now heard of the matter for the first time, these initials were no enigma.
He tells me that La Fayette has fled; but when, where, or for what purpose, is all equally an .