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单词 puzzle
释义
puzzle
(pʌzəl )
Word forms: puzzles , puzzling, puzzled
1. verb
If something puzzles you, you do not understand it and feel confused.
My sister puzzles me and causes me anxiety. [VERB noun]
puzzling adjective
His letter poses a number of puzzling questions.
Synonyms: perplexing, baffling, bewildering, hard  
2. verb
If you puzzle over something, you try hard to think of the answer to it or the explanation for it.
I stayed up nights, puzzling over epic Old English poems in a fog of incomprehension. [VERB + over]
3. countable noun A2
A puzzle is a question, game, or toy which you have to think about carefully in order to answer it correctly or put it together properly.
...a word puzzle.
Synonyms: problem, riddle, maze, labyrinth  
4.  See also crossword
5. singular noun
You can describe a person or thing that is hard to understand as a puzzle.
Data from Voyager II has presented astronomers with a puzzle about why our outermost planet exists.
She was a puzzle.
Phrasal verbs:
puzzle out
phrasal verb
If you puzzle out a problem, you find the answer to it by thinking hard about it.
He left for his summer cottage to puzzle out what he might try next. [VERB PARTICLE wh]
Nosenko puzzled out Kutya's surname. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]
The risks can be so complex that banks hire mathematicians to puzzle them out. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
Collocations:
complete a puzzle
Complete the puzzle and follow the instructions below for your chance to win.
Times, Sunday Times
Complete the puzzle and rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to spell out the name of an actor (3,5).
The Sun
Complete the puzzle then cut out and keep the central 9x9 grid, as indicated by the hashed lines.
Times, Sunday Times
Complete the puzzle and rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to spell out the name of a singer (7,6).
The Sun
Why didn't we try to complete the puzzle last season?
The Sun
complex puzzle
One such devilishly complex puzzle may at last have yielded its secret.
Times, Sunday Times
In this study we were only looking at one little piece of a complex puzzle.
Times, Sunday Times
In exchange the mathematician gave his artist friend a complex puzzle, built around an unusual geometric pattern.
Times, Sunday Times
The first four castaways to complete the first stage would move on to the second stage where they would assemble a complex puzzle.
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This makes it easier to solve some of the complex puzzles.
The Sun
puzzle solution
The receiver saw the blank puzzles while the giver viewed the puzzle solution from an offscreen monitor.
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Some of the puzzle solutions were altered and some removed.
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The game was generally praised for its branching plot structure and multiple puzzle solutions.
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The graphics are stunning and the scenery excellent, noting the multiple puzzle solutions and large game world.
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Many of the puzzle solutions are inspired by various tales (so a player with knowledge of the stories beforehand would have an advantage).
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solve a puzzle
It may help to solve the puzzle of strong employment growth and weak productivity.
Times, Sunday Times
At work, you can solve the puzzle about what a boss really wants.
The Sun
And it would solve a puzzle that continues to baffle voters.
The Sun
Contestants will solve the puzzle blindfolded, one-handed and even with their feet.
Times, Sunday Times
Viewers paid 75p to call and solve a puzzle - but fake winners were listed when no one got the right answer.
The Sun
unsolved puzzle
But when and how these arthropods first made that crucial transition from water to land remains an unsolved puzzle.
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In science, causes for this phenomenon have been proposed but never confirmed, making the reasons for this behaviour an unsolved puzzle.
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Few linguists have allowed their sheer enjoyment of language - its surprises, its unsolved puzzles, its extraordinary patterns - to be so evident in their writing.
The Times Literary Supplement
Players can visit certain areas in order to play undiscovered or unsolved puzzles that are left behind as the story progresses.
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visual puzzle
Can you work out the answers to these fiendish riddles and visual puzzles?
The Sun
Tackle hundreds of logic, maths, language and visual puzzles to earn a global ranking score of your own.
The Sun
It's fitting that he would be attracted to blacklight images, seeing as his paintings are also known for being visual puzzles, incorporating paint over images and scratched out words.
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They must then solve a series of visual puzzles, usually word puzzles but also celebrity face combinations, as the plank recedes 1in cm per second.
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They were then asked to solve a series of visual puzzles, but could only give their answer while kneeling on a complete pile of cushions.
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Translations:
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Japanese: 難問
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