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词汇 mystery
释义 mystery
noun
uk /ˈmɪs.tər.i/ us /ˈmɪs.tɚ.i/

mysterynoun (STRANGE/UNKNOWN THING)


B1[ C or U ]
something strange or not known that has not yet been explained or understood: 神秘的事物,难以理解的事物,谜
How the massive stones were brought here from hundreds of miles away is/remains a mystery.巨石是怎样从几百英里之外运到这里来的仍是个谜。
The mystery was solved when the police discovered the murder weapon.警察找到凶器后,谜团便解开了。
The book tries to explain some of the mysteries of life.该书试图解释一些生命之谜。
The details of the scandal remain cloaked/shrouded/wrapped in mystery.丑闻的详情仍然不明/是一个谜/披着神秘的面纱。
It's a complete mystery (to me) that/why(= I do not understand why) she married him at all!我完全弄不懂她怎么会嫁给他!
They never cleared up the mystery of the missing money.他们一直没搞清楚钱是怎么不翼而飞的。
He was a man of mystery - erased from the history books.他是一个充满神秘色彩的人物——有关他的任何情况都已不见于史册。
I'm afraid it's a fathomless mystery.
There was a feel of mystery about the place.这个地方有种神秘感。
Why anyone buys music with such insipid lyrics is a mystery.这些音乐的歌词索然无味,真不明白为什么会有人买。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Confusion, confusing and feeling confused
addled
all of a doodahidiom
all over the placeidiom
alphabet soup
at seaidiom
disarray
discombobulation
disordered
disorganization
disorganized
muddle
muddle something up
muddle-headed
muddled
mush
turmoil
unaccountable
unaccountably
unexplainable
unexplained

mysterynoun (BOOK/ FILM/PLAY)


[ C ]
a book, film, or play, especially about a crime or a murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have happened: 悬疑作品;悬疑电影;推理剧
I really enjoy murder mysteries.我很爱看谋杀推理作品。
a mystery writer侦探小说作家
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of film, play, book etc.
action thriller
adaptation
Afrofuturism
allegorical
anime
bodice-ripper
boy-meets-girl
director's cut
noir
non-documentary
non-literary
one-shot
paean
parody
period piece
potboiler
sequel
stream of consciousness
tragicomedy
weepy

mystery | American Dictionary


mystery
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈmɪs·tə·ri/
something strange or unknown which has not yet been explained or understood:
[ C ]Despite years of study, sleepwalking remains a mystery.
[ U ]The details of the scandal are shrouded in mystery.
A mystery is also a book, movie, or play about a crime or other event that is difficult to explain:
[ C ]a murder mystery

mysterious


adjectiveus/mɪˈstɪər·i·əs/
He tried to convince this mysterious woman to go out with him.

mysteriously


adverbus/mɪˈstɪər·i·əs·li/
The light mysteriously came on, although no one was near the switch.

Idiom


a mystery to me

Examples of mystery


mystery
The obvious answer from the paper is that such considerations reside with the opaque mysteries of non-classical process.
Many mysteries remain about how and why languages change.
While these reminiscences do not solve any mysteries, they could eventually help to shed new light on significant but as yet unresolved biographical questions.
All this is familiar to those in the business, but two mysteries stand out.
While covering similar ground, the books are complementary in providing different perspectives on one of science's greatest unsolved mysteries.
Moreover, the mysteries of mixing and diluting serum - second only to homeopathic remedies - made it necessary to establish an objective value.
Books were no longer laboriously compiled clerical mysteries: they had rapidly become both commercially viable and highly visible in society at large.
Just-deserts responsibility requires mysteries or myopia; either way, it is fundamentally incompatible with medical science.
By reason of this terror the savage trembled before the magician who seemed to have penetrated the mysteries of nature about him.
We enjoy mysteries, so long as they do not threaten our person.
In the hands of those less skilled than the aforementioned religionists, mysteries themselves, can be used to justify virtually any behaviour.
Their mechanics, in a sense, outweigh their mysteries - which may be a way of saying that the records are disturbing but not inexplicable.
All these and other mysteries are explored in this fascinating book, with the aid of some good illustrations.
The material means of music are rationally quantifiable but not the mysteries of their application.
The near-sacred statistics are explained; formulas are given for mysteries like the earned run average.
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Collocations withmystery


mystery

These are words often used in combination with mystery.

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aura of mystery
I do not mind a great central institution honestly worked, as this, having as it were, a certain auraofmystery, if you like.
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complete mystery
The neurophysiological bases that commit the bulk of humanity to the supernatural remain a completemystery.
great mystery
It is still a greatmystery why the human brain can support sequences and symbols at an abstract level denied to other species.
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