puzzle
英 [ˈpʌzl]
美 [ˈpʌzl]
n. 谜; 智力游戏; 不解之谜; 疑问
v. 迷惑; 使困惑
复数：puzzles 现在分词：puzzling 过去式：puzzled 过去分词：puzzled 第三人称单数：puzzles
Collins.2 / BNC.6964 / COCA.4255
同义词辨析
puzzlebafflebewilderconfuse【导航词义：困惑】
puzzlev. 使困惑，使迷惑
〔辨析〕
指无法理解某事而感到有些困扰。
〔例证〕
What puzzles him is why that movie is so popular.
令他不解的是，为什么那部电影如此受欢迎。
That question continues to puzzle scientists.
那个问题继续困扰着科学家们。
令他不解的是，为什么那部电影如此受欢迎。
That question continues to puzzle scientists.
那个问题继续困扰着科学家们。
bafflev. 使困惑，难倒
〔辨析〕
指完全不能理解或解释问题、行为等。
〔例证〕
The cloze test baffled many students in her class.
完形填空测验难倒了她班上的很多学生。
He was completely baffled by her strange behaviour.
他完全被她怪异的举动搞糊涂了。
完形填空测验难倒了她班上的很多学生。
He was completely baffled by her strange behaviour.
他完全被她怪异的举动搞糊涂了。
bewilderv. 使困惑，使迷茫
〔辨析〕
多指不知所措、无法清楚地思考，通常用被动语态。
〔例证〕
She was bewildered by his remarks.
他的话把她给弄糊涂了。
That young man was bewildered as to whom to believe.
那个年轻人给搞糊涂了，不知道该相信谁。
他的话把她给弄糊涂了。
That young man was bewildered as to whom to believe.
那个年轻人给搞糊涂了，不知道该相信谁。
confusev. 使困惑，把…弄糊涂
〔辨析〕
词义同 bewilder，但程度略轻。
〔例证〕
The detailed instructions for use only served to confuse me further.
所附的详细使用指南使我更加迷惑。
Some of the figures confused him.
其中一些数字把他给弄糊涂了。
所附的详细使用指南使我更加迷惑。
Some of the figures confused him.
其中一些数字把他给弄糊涂了。
短语用例
puzzle over/about sth
- 苦苦思索；仔细琢磨
to think hard about sth in order to understand or explain it
puzzle sth↔out
- 琢磨出…的答案
to find the answer to a difficult or confusing problem by thinking carefully
牛津词典
noun
- 谜；智力游戏
a game, etc. that you have to think about carefully in order to answer it or do it - 谜；智力游戏
a game, etc. that you have to think about carefully in order to answer it or do it - 不解之谜；疑问
something that is difficult to understand or explain
verb
- 迷惑；使困惑
to make sb feel confused because they do not understand sth- What puzzles me is why he left the country without telling anyone.
令我不解的是，他为什么悄悄地离开了这个国家。
- What puzzles me is why he left the country without telling anyone.
柯林斯词典
- VERB 使迷惑；使困惑
If somethingpuzzlesyou, you do not understand it and feel confused.- My sister puzzles me and causes me anxiety.
我妹妹总让我捉摸不透，弄得我焦虑不安。
- My sister puzzles me and causes me anxiety.
- VERB 对…苦苦思索；因…大伤脑筋
If youpuzzle oversomething, you try hard to think of the answer to it or the explanation for it.- In rehearsing Shakespeare, I puzzle over the complexities of his verse and prose.
在排演莎士比亚的戏剧时，其中诗句和散文的复杂让我大伤脑筋。
- In rehearsing Shakespeare, I puzzle over the complexities of his verse and prose.
- See also:...a word puzzle.crossword
- N-SING 令人费解的人；令人困惑的事物
You can describe a person or thing that is hard to understand asa puzzle.- Data from Voyager II has presented astronomers with a puzzle about why our outermost planet exists...
“旅行者二号”发回的数据给天文学家们提出了一个难题：离我们最远的那颗行星为什么会存在。 - She was a puzzle.
她是个谜。
- Data from Voyager II has presented astronomers with a puzzle about why our outermost planet exists...
英英释义
noun
- a game that tests your ingenuity
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
- he loved to solve chessmate puzzles
- that's a real puzzler
verb
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- This beats me!
- Got me--I don't know the answer!
- a vexing problem
- This question really stuck me
- be uncertain about
- We puzzled over her sudden departure
双语例句
- This jigsaw puzzle has two pieces missing.
这拼图玩具缺了两块。 - This puzzle is too complicated for the children.
这个智力游戏对孩子们来说太复杂了。 - It's good for students to puzzle things out for themselves.
让学生们自己思索解决难题很有好处。 - My sister puzzles me and causes me anxiety.
我妹妹总让我捉摸不透，弄得我焦虑不安。 - He left for his summer cottage to puzzle out what he might try next
他动身到他的避暑别墅去想清楚他下一步应该做什么。 - This is really a puzzle to me.
这对我来说着实是道难题。 - You needn't puzzle over every single word or phrase in the book.
这本书用不着一字一句地抠。 - I can't answer that puzzle; I give up.
我猜不出这个谜语，我认输了。 - Her mother sighed and rubbed out another mistake in the crossword puzzle.
她的母亲叹了口气，擦去了纵横填字游戏里另一个填错的地方。 - We've got a new jigsaw puzzle!
我们有了一个新的拼图。