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riddle

/rid-l/US // ˈrɪd l //UK // (ˈrɪdəl) //

谜题,谜团,谜语,灯谜

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a question or statement so framed as to exercise one's ingenuity in answering it or discovering its meaning; conundrum.
    • : a puzzling question, problem, or matter.
    • : a puzzling thing or person.
    • : any enigmatic or dark saying or speech.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    rid·dled, rid·dling.

    • : to propound riddles; speak enigmatically.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounbrain-teaser
Forms: riddled, riddles
Synonyms
complexity复杂性,复杂度,复杂程度,的复杂性conundrum谜题,谜团,谜语,谜底dilemma两难境地,困境,进退两难的局面,窘境enigma谜团,谜题,谜底,谜一样的东西mystery神秘,神秘的,谜团,神秘感puzzle谜题,难题,拼图,谜团quandary左右为难,纠结,窘境,两难teaser预告,预告片,戏弄,挑逗bewilderment困惑,迷惑,疑惑,困惑症charade招摇撞骗,骗局,戏法,骗人的把戏complication复杂化,复杂性,复杂情况,复杂问题confusion混乱,迷惑,混乱局面,困惑cryptogram密码图,密文,加密图,加密distraction分心,分散注意力,分心术,分心的问题doubt疑惑,疑问,疑虑,疑点embarrassment尴尬,窘迫,窘迫感,困窘entanglement纠缠,纠葛,纠结,缠结intricacy复杂性,错综复杂,复杂,复杂度labyrinth迷宫,迷路,迷途,迷宫式maze迷宫,迷阵,迷雾,迷魂阵mystification神化,神秘化,神化现象,神化作用perplexity困惑,迷茫,迷惑,疑惑plight处境,困境,地步,苦难poser造型师,装腔作势,装腔作势者,冒充者predicament窘境,困境,困局,窘况problem问题,问题所在,问题的,问题的解决puzzlement不解之谜,困惑,谜团,不解question问题,疑问,疑问句rebus缰绳,重音符号,重音符,重音stickler执拗的人,坚守者,坚持不懈,拘泥于此strait窄窄的,狭窄的,窄的,窄窄地stumper跳楼者,跳楼的人,跳远者,跳线twister龙卷风,漩涡,捻线机,捻线器brain-twister脑筋急转弯,绕口令,绕指柔,绕脑closed book闭卷,封面书,封闭书,不公开的书knotty question难题,疑难问题,疑难杂症,难解的问题mind-boggler令人费解的事,令人费解的是,令人费解sixty-four dollar question六十四元问题,六十四美元的问题,六十四元的问题tough nut to crack难啃的骨头,难啃的硬骨头,难解之谜,难解的难题tough proposition难题,艰难的命题,艰难的提议,艰难的建议

Examples

  • This riddle is best solved by asking an actual small-business owner.

  • The riddle was reported August 14 in Physical Review Letters.

  • Just as the denominator in the original riddle was 53, here it was N3.

  • Sounds like the makings of another riddle…Congratulations to Tobias Tapirello of Budapest, Hungary, winner of last week’s Riddler Classic.

  • To solve the riddle, Hofgartner and his colleagues revisited data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia and the Cassini spacecraft.

  • Dickinson did this as a game and a test—she loved riddles and turned herself into a riddle wrapped in her own lines.

  • The question, almost akin to a riddle, is certainly a relevant one to anybody in a creative field.

  • Able-bodied people rarely notice the barriers that riddle the world which keep the disabled from participating in society.

  • When Scott Kleinberg wrote about the riddle for The Chicago Tribune, he changed the answer.

  • Some will send paragraph-long descriptions of why the riddle is ‘flawed.’

  • Men of science strove to read the riddle of life; to guide and to succour their fellow creatures.

  • To him who flees love, its nature is explicable; to you, who are still under its influence, it remains a riddle.

  • It was on them that I began to spell out those signs which to the learned reveal a few faint traces of the Mighty Riddle.

  • The dossier is not complete, but, such as it is, it furnishes a riddle in which the supernatural appears to play a part.

  • I like secrets—especially those which concern women—well enough to have amused myself by seeking the clue to the riddle.