| 英语单词 | baffling |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['bæflɪŋ] 美 ['bæflɪŋ] |
| 中文释义 | adj.令人困惑的 动词baffle的现在分词形式. |
| 英语例句 | (1) His answer sounds quite baffling to me. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他的回答让我觉得很困惑。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If something is baffling, it's completely confusing or mysterious. You might find your friend's hatred for the taste of chocolate utterly baffling. |
| vocabulary扩展 | A good mystery novel begins with a baffling crime — one that seems at first nearly impossible to solve. You might also find your math homework baffling or wander around the baffling snarl of streets in a city with no idea where you are. The earliest meaning of baffling was nautical, describing winds blowing in all directions. It comes from the verb baffle, which first meant "to disgrace" before it came to mean "to confuse." |
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