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bafflement

/baf-uhl/US // ˈbæf əl //UK // (ˈbæfəl) //

莫名其妙,迷惑,困惑,迷惑不解

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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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.
v.无主动词 verb
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    baf·fled, baf·fling.

    • : to struggle ineffectually, as a ship in a gale.
n.名词 noun
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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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indisappointment
Antonyms

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.