| 单词 | riddle |
| 释义 | riddle (once / 705 pages) 1vn 2nv What's a question or problem that requires a bit of thought before you answer? It's a riddle, of course. The verb riddle can mean to speak in a puzzling fashion, though that use is not very common. The word riddle might put you in mind of such brain-teasers as "Why did the chicken cross the road?", but riddles actually have a distinguished history in English literature going back to the 10th century. Today, you often find riddle used to mean a hard problem or question to figure out. Is it a riddle to you why you have to go to school? In an unrelated use, if something is riddled with holes, there are many holes in it, quite possible from bullets! WORD FAMILYriddle: riddled, riddles, riddling USAGE EXAMPLESIn the end they passed billions of dollars in taxes and balanced a budget riddled with holes. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) However, the tax is riddled with so many exemptions, deductions and credits that most corporations pay much less. Seattle Times(Dec 24, 2016) That’s the riddle confronting investors in Pershing Square Holdings Ltd., the closed-end fund run by the prominent activist investor Bill Ackman. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1 1v pierce with many holes The bullets riddled his body Hyper pierce make a hole into 2v spread or diffuse through His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks Syn|Hypo|Hyper diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade spiritise, spiritize imbue with a spirit penetrate, perforate pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance 3v separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff Syn|Hyper screen sieve, sift, strain separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements 4n a coarse sieve (as for gravel) 2Hyper screen, sieve a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles 1n a difficult problem Syn|Hyper brain-teaser, conundrum, enigma problem a question raised for consideration or solution 2v set a difficult problem or riddle riddle me a riddle Hyper amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex be a mystery or bewildering to 3v explain a riddle Hyper figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work, work out find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of 4v speak in riddles Hyper communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings |
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