riddle

英 [ˈrɪdl]

美 [ˈrɪdl]

n.  谜; 谜语; 神秘事件; 无法解释的情况
v.  使布满窟窿

过去分词：riddled　复数：riddles　过去式：riddled　现在分词：riddling　第三人称单数：riddles　

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习惯用语

v.

be riddled with sth
• 充满；充斥
  to be full of sth, especially sth bad or unpleasant
• His body was riddled with cancer.
  癌瘤遍布他的全身。
• Her typing was slow and riddled with mistakes.
  她打字很慢而且错误百出。

牛津词典

noun

• 谜；谜语
  a question that is difficult to understand, and that has a surprising answer, that you ask sb as a game
  1. Stop talking in riddles (= saying things that are confusing) ─say what you mean.
     别拐弯抹角了，有话直说。
  2. to solve the riddle of the Sphinx
     解开斯芬克斯之谜
• 神秘事件；无法解释的情况
  a mysterious event or situation that you cannot explain
  1. the riddle of how the baby died
     婴儿死亡之谜

verb

• 使布满窟窿
  to make a lot of holes in sb/sth
  1. The car was riddled with bullets .
     这辆车被子弹打得千疮百孔。

柯林斯词典

• 谜;谜语
  Ariddleis a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems to be nonsense but which has a clever or amusing answer.
• N-COUNT 谜团;费解的事
  You can describe something as ariddleif people have been trying to understand or explain it but have not been able to.
  1. Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the riddle of the birth of the Universe.
     科学家们昨天声称已经解开了宇宙形成之谜。
• VERB （用子弹）把…打得到处是洞，使满是弹孔
  If someoneriddlessomethingwithbullets or bullet holes, they fire a lot of bullets into it.
  1. Unknown attackers riddled two homes with gunfire...
     来路不明的袭击者用枪炮将两处住宅打得千疮百孔。
  2. The darkness saved me from being riddled with bullets.
     身处黑暗中让我不至于被子弹打得浑身是洞。

英英释义

noun

• a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
• a difficult problem
  Synonym:conundrumenigmabrain-teaser

verb

• set a difficult problem or riddle
  1. riddle me a riddle
• explain a riddle
• speak in riddles
• spread or diffuse through
  1. An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration
  2. music penetrated the entire building
  3. His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks
  Synonym:permeatepervadepenetrateinterpenetratediffuseimbue
• pierce with many holes
  1. The bullets riddled his body
• separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
  Synonym:screen

双语例句

• Can you answer this riddle?
  你能猜出这个谜语吗？
• You answer the riddle, the poem riddle.
  回答这个谜语，诗中的谜语。
• Christmas crackers with a gift and a riddle inside.
  里面装有礼物和谜语的圣诞彩包爆竹。
• The darkness saved me from being riddled with bullets.
  身处黑暗中让我不至于被子弹打得浑身是洞。
• So the little poem is a riddle that contains these doctrines within itself.
  所以这首小诗，其实是包含了这些教义的谜语。
• Give me a hint so that I can solve the riddle.
  给我一点提示我就可以揭开这个谜。
• Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the riddle of the birth of the Universe.
  科学家们昨天声称已经解开了宇宙形成之谜。
• I have a riddle.
  我有一个谜语。
• More of a riddle, actually.
  事实上更象是个谜语。
• The riddle remains inscrutable to us.
  那个谜对我们仍然是不可解的。