Puzzle

(noun.) a game that tests your ingenuity.

(noun.) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; 'he loved to solve chessmate puzzles'; 'that's a real puzzler'.

(verb.) be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide; 'We puzzled over her sudden departure'.

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• Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at all of what it meant. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• In short, the case had been a puzzle from the first, and one more perplexity was added to it now. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I want to puzzle you again. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Now you look puzzled; and I will puzzle you further. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I tried to puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside until night should bring an explanation. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Why should it puzzle you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You puzzle me, Jane: your look and tone of sorrowful audacity perplex and pain me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• What puzzles you, puzzles me too. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I can understand content in such a case--though how the outward situation can attract him puzzles me. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But for her self-control, the mystery that puzzles you, Mr. Betteredge, would have been at an end to-night. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Be sure to let me interpret for her whenever she puzzles you; always believe my account of the matter, Robert. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Is there so little business in the world that you must be sending puzzles over the country? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But I admit Maurice with his melancholia puzzles me. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I was puzzled, because I could not make the glimpses of furniture I saw accord with my knowledge of any of these apartments. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I handed it back to Mr. Murthwaite, and owned that this curious specimen of Hindoo correspondence rather puzzled me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I felt satisfied of another thing, from what he said, which it puzzled me to understand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Struck by the significance of his tone, Maurice looked keenly at him, and then turned to Crispin with a puzzled air. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Now you look puzzled; and I will puzzle you further. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• She was looking mighty serious, but a little puzzled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mrs. Yolland has puzzled me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• These few I amused myself by puzzling to make out; and, in particular, I was attracted by the outline of a picture on the wall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The thundering carriage-and-pair encountered were now likewise recalled, as well as that puzzling signal, the waved handkerchief. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• That's the puzzling part. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The history of life that men have puzzled out and are still puzzling out from them is called the Record of the Rocks. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To us some of his difficulties are puzzling only from their simplicity: we do not perceive that the answer to them 'is tumbling out at our feet. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Yes; though I own you were puzzling at times. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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