Mystery
['mɪst(ə)rɪ] or [ˈmɪstəri]
解释:
(noun.) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; 'how it got out is a mystery'; 'it remains one of nature's secrets'.
(noun.) a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie.
整理:希欧多尔--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something which has not been or can not be explained; hence, specifically, that which is beyond human comprehension.
(a.) A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated by certain preparatory ceremonies; -- usually plural; as, the Eleusinian mysteries.
(a.) The consecrated elements in the eucharist.
(a.) Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma.
(n.) A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied.
(n.) A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often some event in the life of Christ; a dramatic composition of this character; as, the Chester Mysteries, consisting of dramas acted by various craft associations in that city in the early part of the 14th century.
校对:威尔默
同义词及近义词：
n. Secret, enigma, riddle.
编辑:奥斯本
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Enigma, puzzle, obscurity, secrecy, veil, shroud, arcanum
ANT:Publication, solution, commonplace, truism, matter-of-fact
校对:迈拉
解释:
n. a secret doctrine: anything very obscure: that which is beyond human knowledge to explain: anything artfully made difficult: (pl.) secret rites in ancient religions rites known only to and practised by initiated persons as the Eleusinian mysteries in Greece &c.: a sacrament: a rude medieval drama founded on the historical parts of the Bible and the lives of the saints—the Basque pastorales are a survival.—adj. Mystē′rious containing mystery: obscure: secret: incomprehensible.—adv. Mystē′riously.—n. Mystē′riousness.
n. a trade handicraft.
手打:洛伊斯
娱乐性解释：
To find yourself bewildered by some mysterious event, denotes that strangers will harass you with their troubles and claim your aid. It warns you also of neglected duties, for which you feel much aversion. Business will wind you into unpleasant complications. To find yourself studying the mysteries of creation, denotes that a change will take place in your life, throwing you into a higher atmosphere of research and learning, and thus advancing you nearer the attainment of true pleasure and fortune.
整理:露丝
例句:
- An idea is by its very nature weaker and fainter than an impression; but being in every other respect the same, cannot imply any very great mystery. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Not to get up a mystery with these people, I resolved to announce in the morning that my uncle had unexpectedly come from the country. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- I shook her loose--the mystery! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- To be man was as nothing compared to the possibilities of the creative mystery. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Can you not clear up the last point in this mystery, and tell us the reasons for your action? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- An instant later the mystery was explained. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- I have tamed that savage stenographic mystery. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The way to the Secret lay through the mystery, hitherto impenetrable to all of us, of the woman in white. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- No one could remember it without gaining faith in the mystery, without the soul's warming with new, deep life-truSt. And Gerald! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Why a thousand people are not run over and crippled every day is a mystery that no man can solve. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It's a blessed mystery to me, cried Pycroft, scratching his head. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- We sent him to the captain, and he explained to him the mystery of ship time and set his troubled mind at rest. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Next day the mystery of the guineas was explained. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Do you see any prospect of solving this mystery, Mr. Holmes? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Talking of mysteries, by-the-bye, says Mr. Franklin, dropping his voice, I have another word to say to you before you go to the stables. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Gerald was left behind like a postulant in the ante-room of this temple of mysteries, this woman. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- She was jealous of him, but there was another and graver source of trouble in her passion for religious mysteries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- They were implicated with each other in abhorrent mysteries. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Suddenly his strange, strained attention gave way, he could not attend to these mysteries any more. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- They told me that you were fond of queer mysteries, and I don't think you can find a queerer one than that. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- No human intelligence could have read the mysteries of his mind, in the scared blank wonder of his face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- He once lived wi' a Scotchman that tached him the mysteries o' that craft, as they say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Not to intrude on the sacred mysteries of medicine, he took it, now (with the jury droop and persuasive eye-glass), that this was Merdle's case? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- It desc ribes itself as Instructions for arriving at the knowledge of all things, and of things obscure, and of all mysteries. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- He spoke very handsomely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,--using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to repeat. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- But my mind had been running on Grace Poole--that living enigma, that mystery of mysteries, as I considered her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The suggestion of primitive art was their refuge, and the inner mysteries of sensation their object of worship. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- As to his shirt-collar, and his coat-collar, they were perplexing to reflect upon,--insoluble mysteries both. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
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