| 英语单词 | puzzling |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['pʌzlɪŋ] 美 ['pʌzlɪŋ] |
| 中文释义 | adj.令人迷惑的;茫然不知所措的;莫名其妙的 动词puzzle的现在分词. |
| 英语例句 | (1) The teacher's explanation clarify the puzzling problem. (2) No biographer has been able to explain these puzzling words. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 老师的说明澄清了困扰的问题。 (2) 没有传记作者能解释这些迷一般的话。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Something that's puzzling is confusing, or hard to understand. It might seem puzzling to you that your best friend claims to hate doughnuts. |
| vocabulary扩展 | People sometimes act in puzzling ways, making decisions that you can't comprehend. You might also come across particularly puzzling questions on a test or quiz — these are the hard ones, taking a long time to figure out and requiring a lot of thought. Puzzling comes from the verb puzzle, whose origin is a bit of a puzzle itself. Some experts guess that it comes from pose, formed the way nuzzle is from nose. |
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