puzzle 的 4 个定义
- 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.
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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.
puz·zled, puz·zling.
- to be perplexed or confused.
- to ponder or study over some perplexing problem or matter.
- puzzle out, to solve by careful study or effort: I was unable to puzzle out the message.
puzzle 近义词
baffle, confuse
wonder about
更多puzzle例句
- 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.