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puzzle

/puhz-uhl/US // ˈpʌz əl //UK // (ˈpʌzəl) //

谜题,难题,拼图,谜团

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.有主动词 verb
  1. 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.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    puz·zled, puz·zling.

    • : to be perplexed or confused.
    • : to ponder or study over some perplexing problem or matter.
  1. 1
    • : puzzle out, to solve by careful study or effort: I was unable to puzzle out the message.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbaffle, confuse
Forms: puzzled, puzzles, puzzling
Synonyms
amaze惊奇,令人惊讶的是,惊艳,惊奇地发现befuddle淆乱,混乱,混淆视听,淆乱人心bemuse酝酿,酝酿中,酝酿之中,酝酿着bewilder迷惑,迷惑人,迷惑人心,迷惑人的complicate复杂化,复杂,复杂的,错综复杂confound困惑,混淆,混淆视听disconcert令人不安,使人不安,使人不安的是,令人不安的是distract分散注意力,分心,分散注意,分散精力disturb困扰,干扰,扰乱,骚扰dumbfound哑然失笑,蠢蠢欲动,哑巴,哑口无言flabbergast瞠目结舌,眩晕,惊愕,眩目flummox傻瓜式,傻瓜式的,傻瓜,傻瓜型frustrate沮丧,挫折,挫败,沮丧的mystify神秘化,神化,使人感到神秘的是,使人迷惑的是nonplus非加,非加号,不加,非加码perplex困惑,困扰,困扰的问题,疑惑rattle拨浪鼓,拨浪鼓的声音,拨动,拨浪鼓声stump树桩,残端,残枝败叶,残枝addle加德勒,瘾君子,加德纳,加德士bamboozle斑竹,斑纹,斑鸠,斑马线beat打,殴打,拍打,击打befog苾格buffalo水牛,水牛城,水牛奶,水牛市discombobulate混淆视听,搞混了,混沌不清,混淆视听的情况下floor地板,楼层,地面,楼面foil箔,箔片,箔纸,挫折obscure模糊不清,不明显,不明显的,无名小卒pose姿势,构成,姿态,构成的snow雪,白雪,积雪,雪花stir搅动,搅拌,挑动,搅动了stumble趔趄,绊倒,跌跌撞撞,踉跄throw抛出,扔掉,抛出的,扔掉了get to到,到了,到场,到手profundicate渊博的,渊博,深入浅出,渊深psych out精神病学,精神病患者,精神病治疗,精神病院put off推迟,延缓,推迟了,推迟执行

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.

  • He was an Englishman and came to the valley by chance and settled here, and to his dying day he was a puzzle to the people.

  • The chief puzzle of the problem is that nothing turns out as we were told it would turn out.

  • Something seemed to puzzle him, for he was frowning, but by and by the old cynical smile came back.

  • It did not puzzle the Colonel at all to know where the sperrit came from, and he did not like the child the less because of it.

  • I can read a chapter to father in the Bible, but the hard names sadly puzzle me.

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