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
- 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。 - 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。 - Anyway, this returns us to the enigma of Aristotle.
无论如何,这将我们带回到,围绕亚里士多德的谜团。 - Decidedly this man was an enigma.
这人真是个谜。 - Historically they proved to be an enigma.
历史证明它仍然是个谜团。 - He is an enigma to all of us.
对我们而言,他是个神秘莫测的人物。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Enigma of Life and Beauty of Transcendent Experience A Dream of Red Mansions;
人生之谜和超验之美&体悟《红楼梦》