| 单词 | puzzle |
| 释义 | puzzle (once / 175 pages) vn To puzzle over something is to try to understand or solve it. Picture someone struggling with a jigsaw puzzle, trying to figure out how all those tiny pieces fit together to form an image. That person is puzzling over a puzzle! When something puzzles you, it confuses and mystifies you. New technology might continually puzzle your grandfather, while your grandmother is quick to figure it out. When you puzzle over a difficult book or the instructions to your new TV, it's like you're trying to piece together a tricky puzzle — a challenging game or problem. The classic puzzle is a jigsaw puzzle, a picture that's split into small, oddly-shaped pieces you need to reassemble into a whole. There are also logic puzzles, crossword puzzles, and mechanical puzzles like a Rubik's Cube. If you can't figure a person out, you can also call them a puzzle. WORD FAMILYpuzzle: puzzled, puzzlement, puzzler, puzzles, puzzling+/puzzled: puzzledly/puzzlement: puzzlements/puzzler: puzzlers/puzzling: puzzlingly USAGE EXAMPLES“There’s some missing piece of the puzzle that we need to find right now,” Lindsay Weekes said. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The online reaction to the puzzle was swift, though it seemed more people were entertained than offended. BBC(Jan 03, 2017) I set a puzzle here every two weeks on a Monday. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1v be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide We puzzled over her sudden departure Hyper chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over reflect deeply on a subject 2v be a mystery or bewildering to Syn|Hypo|Hyper amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex mix up, stump cause to be perplexed or confounded riddleset a difficult problem or riddle elude, escapebe incomprehensible to; escape understanding by defy, refuse, resistelude, especially in a baffling way bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly 3n a game that tests your ingenuity Hypo|Hyper Chinese puzzle intricate or ingenious puzzle consisting of boxes within boxes jigsaw puzzlea puzzle that requires you to reassemble a picture that has been mounted on a stiff base and cut into interlocking pieces tangrama Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs crossword, crossword puzzlea puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle game the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game 4n a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution he loved to solve chessmate puzzles Syn|Hypo|Hyper mystifier, puzzler, teaser sudoku a number puzzle in which the numbers 1 through 9 must be placed into a grid of cells so that each row or column contains only one of each number acrostic, word squarea puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across problem a question raised for consideration or solution |
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