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flummoxed

/fluhm-uhkst/US // ˈflʌm əkst //

糊涂了,不解风情,糊涂虫,糊涂的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Informal. utterly bewildered, confused, or puzzled:When I walk into a store to buy video equipment and see the multitude of options, I’m befuddled and flummoxed.

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Examples

  • Only eight safeties have been better at flummoxing passers in 2020.

  • Notta Realname reported being “flummoxed” but welcomed the birders into their backyard anyway and then became frustrated when the unexpected guests displayed “questionable” ethics.

  • The company announced today that its AlphaFold system has officially solved a protein folding grand challenge that has flummoxed the scientific community for 50 years.

  • Today, three decades after the receptor discovery, the mechanisms of odor perception continue to flummox researchers.

  • Because of the Heat’s versatility — they flummoxed Boston with a shifting zone defense — and because they’re the best conditioned team in the league, they can adapt to whatever offense comes their way.

  • Today, researchers are flummoxed as to the whereabouts of this gargantuan cultural artifact.

  • The finest minds in the Western intelligence community were flummoxed.

  • But when Jake Tapper of CNN pointed out that Democrats controlled Congress then, Carney seemed flummoxed.

  • But some of his views have left the highly influential rigid social conservative wing of the party flummoxed and wary.

  • Gore stood up to challenge Bush in this 2000 debate, but got flummoxed and deflated by a simple nod.

  • But when you arst 'im what ought to be done--'e's flummoxed.'

  • Only lately I was flummoxed by a gent asking for a liqueur I'd never 'eard of.

  • I am all too flummoxed by the masquerade in the tourney round about me.