| 单词 | to riddle out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto riddle out to riddle out transitive. To work out, solve, explain. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > solution of puzzle, riddle, etc. > expound, solve [verb (transitive)] areadOE readOE expound1535 unriddlea1586 riddle me a riddle1588 to riddle forth1624 riddle1627 to riddle out1647 rede1725 discruciatea1745 redd1876 1647 H. More Philos. Poems 33 So might we riddle out some mystery. 1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica xii. 91 The Time-eaten names of the Consuls in that Monumentum Ancyranum above-mentioned, as riddled out by T. L. 1821 H. C. Knight Poems (ed. 2) I. 158 Fond youth, nay take a smile or two, And riddle out your fate. 1862 H. Mayhew Young Benjamin Franklin 482 Riddle it out as skeptics may, the emotion which causes us to suffer others' sufferings—to share in their misery—to take part in their afflictions, is..unselfish. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xvii. 290 It's queer doctrine, and maybe I havena riddled it out right, for I'm loth to believe that an honest man could uphold it. 1998 P. Dresch in W. James & N. J. Allen Marcel Mauss xiii. 130 One cannot riddle this out by amateur philology, for the term occurs in the Qur'an just once. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。