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 enigma.
Aristide looked mournfully over the rain-swept common through the leaded panes, and speculated on the enigma of woman.
The Man in the Iron Mask is an enigma which each one attempts to solve.
“You tempt one to enquire the length of the reign of a satisfactory enigma,” cried Lady Engleton.