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　

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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.
  1. Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
     对于外界而言，伊朗仍是个谜。
  2. ...a story which makes clear the modern enigma of spirituality.
     解开现代灵性之谜的故事

英英释义

noun

• something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
  1. how it got out is a mystery
  2. it remains one of nature's secrets
  Synonym:mysterysecretclosed book
• a difficult problem
  Synonym:riddleconundrumbrain-teaser

双语例句

• His disappearance is an enigma.
  他的失踪是个谜。
• This question still remains as an enigma in the Western literary research.
  一直是西方文学研究中的难解之谜。
• He is an enigma to all of us.
  对我们而言，他是个神秘莫测的人物。
• Decidedly this man was an enigma.
  这人真是个谜。
• 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。
• 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。
• I've known him for many years, but he remains something of an enigma to me.
  我与他相识多年，他仍然难以捉摸。
• She never yielded and never became an enigma.
  她从不屈服，从来没有成为一个不可思议的人。
• Young buyers "millennials" in the parlance of marketers present an enigma for auto executives.
  年轻消费者，也就是营销人员口中的“千禧一代”，对汽车厂商的高管来说似乎是个谜团。
• 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。