With allusion to the difficulty of cracking hard-shelled nuts: a difficult question or problem; a matter or undertaking difficult to accomplish…
| 单词 | θ127148 |
| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun] > especially difficult (6) nut1540 With allusion to the difficulty of cracking hard-shelled nuts: a difficult question or problem; a matter or undertaking difficult to accomplish… problem1543 A difficult or demanding question; (now, more usually) a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome, harmful, or wrong and needing to be overcome; a… enigma1609 figurative. Something as puzzling as an enigma; an unsolved problem. three-pipe problem1891 a problem which requires considerable thought (for the duration of the smoking of three pipes of tobacco). Chinese puzzle1895 one of the ingenious puzzles made by the Chinese, in which the problem is to fit together the dissected pieces of a geometrical or other figure, to… monkey-puzzle1902 figurative. Something suggestive of a monkey-puzzle tree, esp. in being intricate, convoluted, or complicated. |
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