enigma
英 [ɪˈnɪɡmə]
美 [ɪˈnɪɡmə]
n. 神秘的人; 费解的事物; 令人困惑的处境
复数:enigmas
Collins.1 / BNC.14427 / COCA.14247
牛津词典
noun
- 神秘的人;费解的事物;令人困惑的处境
a person, thing or situation that is mysterious and difficult to understand
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 难解之谜;费解的事;费解的人
If you describe something or someone as anenigma, you mean they are mysterious or difficult to understand.- Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
对于外界而言,伊朗仍是个谜。 - ...a story which makes clear the modern enigma of spirituality.
解开现代灵性之谜的故事
- Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
英英释义
noun
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- how it got out is a mystery
- it remains one of nature's secrets
- a difficult problem
双语例句
- Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable.
所有的一切,在这个离奇的哑谜中,是无法解释的。 - Yet, for all of this, one might say there is still a profound enigma surrounding Aristotle's political works.
但除了上述之外,人们还是觉得,亚里士多德的政治作品仍充满了深奥的谜团。 - Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
对于外界而言,伊朗仍是个谜。 - Historically they proved to be an enigma.
历史证明它仍然是个谜团。 - Crack a notoriously difficult mathematical enigma within two years and the money's yours.
只要你能在两年内求证一个著名的数学难题,这些钱就是你的了。 - The idea then that Machiavelli is doing no more than saying openly and overtly what ancient writers had wrapped in parable and enigma and myth says something about Machiavelli's new political science.
马基雅维利只不过是,公然说出了古代作家们,以寓言,谜以及神话的形式包裹的内容,这种看法一定程度上阐明了马基雅维利的。 - The human remains of what you term'Spirit Cave Man'found in Grimes Point is an enigma to your anthropologist.
在格里姆斯被发现的你们所称的“灵性洞穴人”的骸骨对你们人类学家来说是一个大谜团。 - Nevertheless, voles are an "evolutionary enigma" with many bizarre traits, DeWoody said.
但是野鼠是包含许多奇怪特性的“进化中的谜”,代物第说道。 - Whichever way you look at the Eocene enigma, it is bad news for life on Earth.
无论用何种途径来观察始新世温室的这个谜,都对地球上生命带来不好的消息。 - In the 18 years since they were discovered, high-temperature superconductors have remained an enigma.
在高温超导体发现后的18年,它仍然是个谜。