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

puzzle baffle bewilder confuse【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。

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。

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。

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。

puzzle over/about sth

puzzle sth↔out

琢磨出…的答案
to find the answer to a difficult or confusing problem by thinking carefully

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
1. 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。

VERB 使迷惑；使困惑
If somethingpuzzlesyou, you do not understand it and feel confused.
1. 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。
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.
1. 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。
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.
1. 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。
2. She was a puzzle.
  她是个谜。

noun

a game that tests your ingenuity
a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
1. he loved to solve chessmate puzzles
2. that's a real puzzler
Synonym:puzzlermystifierteaser

verb

I can't answer that puzzle; I give up.
我猜不出这个谜语，我认输了。
For the life of me, I can't solve this puzzle.
就是要了我的命，我也无法解出这一难题。
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。
This puzzle is too complicated for the children.
这个智力游戏对孩子们来说太复杂了。
Geneticists in Canada have discovered a clue to the puzzle of why our cells get old and die
加拿大的遗传学家已经发现了解开细胞衰老、死亡之谜的线索。
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。
Critics and the public puzzle out the layers of meaning in his photos.
评论界和公众揭开了他照片中的重重深意。
Stretch your brain with this puzzle.
用这个智力游戏锻炼你的思维能力。
A rather neat option allows you to design your own fiendish puzzle.
只要干净利落地做一个选择，你就能自己设计出难以解开的谜题。
One great biological puzzle is why membrances frequently fuse intracellularly, but rarely intercellularly.
一个生物学的大迷团是为什么膜层经常在细胞内而很少在细胞间融合。