puzzle.
谜题,难题,拼图,谜团
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
- ›something puzzling; a puzzling question, matter, or person.
- ›a puzzled or perplexed condition; bewilderment.
- ›a crossword puzzle: Did you do the puzzle in the newspaper today?
- ›a jigsaw puzzle.
v.verb · 有主动词
- 1.
puz·zled, puz·zling.
- ›to put at a loss; mystify; confuse; baffle: Her attitude puzzles me.
- ›to frustrate or confound, as the understanding; perplex: The problem puzzled him for weeks.
- ›to exercise over some problem or matter.
- ›Archaic. to make intricate or complicated.
v.verb · 无主动词
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Examples
Rereading is like looking at the answer to a puzzle, rather than doing it yourself, he says.
This cocktail hour interactive exhibition changes each year, but last year it involved attendees competing against one another in a cookie-cutter-themed puzzle challenge designed by artist Zak Kitnick.
At first, chronicling daily symptoms was like starting a brand-new puzzle.
He’s given us something to contemplate, a puzzle we must return to more than once to begin to apprehend.
While that was the intent of the puzzle, it wasn’t explicitly stated.
For passengers, beyond the statistics lies a puzzle that has persisted for years.
Working on his own piece of the intelligence puzzle, Stasio racked up impressive victories.
When he looks at the neatly compiled jigsaw puzzle of his life, however, he feels empty, deeply dissatisfied.
But their action just proved another confounding piece of this negligent puzzle.
Without access to the site, reporters, social media, and governments put together pieces of the puzzle.