puzzle

noun

1. 谜；智力游戏
   a game, etc. that you have to think about carefully in order to answer it or do it
2. 谜；智力游戏
   a game, etc. that you have to think about carefully in order to answer it or do it
3. 不解之谜；疑问
   something that is difficult to understand or explain

verb

1. 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。

1. VERB 使迷惑；使困惑
   If something puzzles you, 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。
2. VERB 对…苦苦思索；因…大伤脑筋
   If you puzzle over something, 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。
3. See also: ...a word puzzle. crossword
4. 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 as a 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。

1. Stretch your brain with this puzzle.
   用这个智力游戏锻炼你的思维能力。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. Gautier's solution to the puzzle is ingenious.
   戈蒂埃限免这道难题的方法很巧妙。
5. 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。
6. The risks can be so complex that banks hire mathematicians to puzzle them out.
   由于风险过高，银行便聘请数学家来解决这些问题。
7. Her mother sighed and rubbed out another mistake in the crossword puzzle.
   她的母亲叹了口气，擦去了纵横填字游戏里另一个填错的地方。
8. The puzzle niggled away in Arnold's mind.
   这个谜团在阿诺德脑海里挥之不去。
9. This process is akin to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle
   这个过程和拼图相似。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. She was a puzzle.
    她是个谜。
14. He left for his summer cottage to puzzle out what he might try next
    他动身到他的避暑别墅去想清楚他下一步应该做什么。
15. 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。
16. I have in mind some doubts which really puzzle me.
    我心中有一个疑团，百思不得其解。
17. I can't answer that puzzle; I give up.
    我猜不出这个谜语，我认输了。
18. The firemen were in a puzzle about the cause of the fire.
    消防队员对这场火灾的起因困惑不解。
19. It's good for students to puzzle things out for themselves.
    让学生们自己思索解决难题很有好处。
20. It took him only ten minutes to solve the puzzle.
    他解这道题仅仅用了十分钟。
21. 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。
22. This puzzle is too complicated for the children.
    这个智力游戏对孩子们来说太复杂了。
23. 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。
24. It's a huge puzzle.
    这是一个大谜题。
25. This is really a puzzle to me.
    这对我来说着实是道难题。
26. We've got a new jigsaw puzzle!
    我们有了一个新的拼图。
27. It's a puzzle. I like puzzles.
    它是一幅拼图。我喜欢拼图。
28. This one was quite the puzzle for me.
    这一次对我来说是很困惑。
29. In this essay I tackle the problem of solving every Sudoku puzzle.
    本文中，我处理了在解决每个数独迷题过程中遇到的问题。
30. This jigsaw puzzle has two pieces missing.
    这拼图玩具缺了两块。

  puzzle baffle bewilder confuse【导航词义：困惑】

  puzzle v. 使困惑，使迷惑

〔辨析〕指无法理解某事而感到有些困扰。

  baffle v. 使困惑，难倒

〔辨析〕指完全不能理解或解释问题、行为等。

  bewilder v. 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。

  confuse v. 使困惑，把…弄糊涂

〔辨析〕词义同 bewilder，但程度略轻。

puzzle over/about sth

1. 苦苦思索；仔细琢磨
   to think hard about sth in order to understand or explain it

puzzle sth↔out

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

noun

1. a game that tests your ingenuity

2. 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

1. be a mystery or bewildering to
   1. This beats me!
   2. Got me--I don't know the answer!
   3. a vexing problem
   4. This question really stuck me

   Synonym:    perplexvexstickgetmystifybafflebeatposebewilderflummoxstupefynonplusgravelamazedumbfound

2. be uncertain about
   1. We puzzled over her sudden departure