Conundrum
[kə'nʌndrəm]
解释:
(n.) A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.
(n.) A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.
詹尼弗编辑
解释:
n. a sort of riddle containing some odd or fanciful resemblance between things quite unlike: any puzzling question.
克利福德整理
例句:
- This little conundrum came by the first post, and he was to follow by the next train. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- A conundrum of Mr. Weston's shall clear him and his next neighbour. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- How will a conundrum reckon? 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- I believe the theme of this incomprehensible conundrum was the moon. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- But to enable me to do so, I must first have found out the troublesome conundrum long abandoned. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I am making a conundrum. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
德威特编辑