bafflement
莫名其妙,迷惑,困惑,迷惑不解
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Definitions
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baf·fled, baf·fling.
- : to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
- : to frustrate or confound; thwart by creating confusion or bewilderment.
- : to check or deflect the movement of.
- : to equip with a baffle or baffles.
- : Obsolete. to cheat; trick.
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baf·fled, baf·fling.
- : to struggle ineffectually, as a ship in a gale.
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- : something that balks, checks, or deflects.
- : an artificial obstruction for checking or deflecting the flow of gases, sounds, light, etc.
- : any boxlike enclosure or flat panel for mounting a loudspeaker.
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Examples
He is not entirely surprised that brown tree snakes have devised a way to deal with wide trees or baffles.
It might appear senseless but that is appearance only, our bafflement before such barbarity.
This accounts for some of the bafflement that occasionally greets Bachmann's statements.
To say I felt foolish, would inadequately express my sense of utter bafflement.
His voice sounded odd and tired, and there was an ache of bafflement in his young eyes.
A flutter of bafflement showed in her black lashes, but the lips continued to twitch mischievously.
It was fixed first on Mlanie, then on Agatha, then returned to Mlanie with an added increment of rage and bafflement.
Wise was very grave and silent,—he was in a mood which Zizi knew was that of utter bafflement.