英语单词 | mystery |
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英美音标 | 英 ['mɪstri] 美 ['mɪstri] |
中文释义 | n.谜,神秘;奥秘;秘密;神秘的人或事物;推理小说(戏剧) |
英语例句 | (1) His past is enveloped in a shroud of mystery. (2) The dark trees lent an air of mystery to the scene. (3) She proposed a possible solution to the mystery. (4) The mystery has now come to light. (5) Why he went there is a mystery to me. (6) I can't figure him out--he is a mystery. (7) He was wont to read a mystery in bed. |
中文例句 | (1) 他过去的经历笼罩着神秘气氛。 (2) 阴暗的树林给景色带来几分神秘。 (3) 她提出了对这个奥秘的一种可能的解答。 (4) 这个秘密现在已被揭开了。 (5) 他为什么到那里去,这对我来说是个谜。 (6) 我无法理解他--他是个神秘莫测的人。 (7) 他习惯躺在床上读推理小说。 |
vocabulary简明 | A mystery is something that baffles our understanding and cannot be explained. The giant slabs of Stonehenge, remain a mystery to this day. |
vocabulary扩展 | The noun mystery comes from the Greek mysterion, meaning "secret rite or doctrine." A great synonym for secret is enigma. We use this word all the time to describe stuff we don't understand, from crop circles and UFOs to the origins of the universe and the workings of the human brain. In literature, drama, and film, a mystery is a story that centers around a crime, usually murder, which finally gets solved at the very end. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]谜;神秘的事物;难懂的事物 A mystery is something that is not understood or known about.
2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]神秘;谜一样的特质 If you talk about the mystery of someone or something, you are talking about how difficult they are to understand or know about, especially when this gives them a rather strange or magical quality.
3 [ADJ 形容词]神秘的;身份不明的 A mystery person or thing is one whose identity or nature is not known. [ADJ n]
4 [N-COUNT 可数名词]疑案小说;推理小说 A mystery is a story in which strange things happen that are not explained until the end.
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