Conundrum
[kə'nʌndrəm]
解釋/意思:
(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.
詹尼弗編輯
解釋/意思:
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/造句/用法:
- This little conundrum came by the first post, and he was to follow by the next train. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- A conundrum of Mr. Weston's shall clear him and his next neighbour. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- How will a conundrum reckon? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I believe the theme of this incomprehensible conundrum was the moon. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- But to enable me to do so, I must first have found out the troublesome conundrum long abandoned. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I am making a conundrum. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
德威特編輯