Baffle

['bæf(ə)l] or ['bæfl]

解释:

(noun.) a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy.

(verb.) check the emission of (sound).

编辑:凯利--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

(v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

(v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.

(v. i.) To practice deceit.

(v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

(n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

卡洛整理

同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Disconcert, frustrate, foil, elude, balk, circumvent.[2]. Confound, bewilder, perplex, out-general, out-manœuvre.

编辑:谢尔顿

解释:

v.t. to check or make ineffectual: (obs.) to cheat hoodwink bewilder bring to nought: (obs.) to disgrace publicly.—ns. Baf′fle (obs.) confusion check; Baf′fler a bewilderer confounder.—To baffle out of (obs.) to juggle out of anything.

录入:泰茜