| 词汇 | puzzlement |
| 释义 | puzzlement noun[ U ] formaluk /ˈpʌz.əl.mənt/ us /ˈpʌz.əl.mənt/ a state of confusion because you do not understand something迷惑，困惑 Synonyms bewilderment mystification 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 unaccountable unaccountably unexplainable unexplained unsearchable Examples of puzzlementpuzzlement As examples, they were likelier to pause, look perplexed, replay the tape, and verbally express their puzzlement. Policy-making is a form of collective puzzlement on society's behalf; it entails both deciding and knowing. What is not a source of philosophical puzzlement? His novels record the puzzlement he shared with his time about the distinction between the animate and the inanimate. One of my colleagues mentioned that economists do not use deception, and the administrator looked to me, in puzzlement. The puzzlement with seeing a face as friendly, kind or beautiful is puzzlement with the grammar of these words. So what was the source of my puzzlement? That he remained resolutely silent would have simply deepened their puzzlement. My overall feeling when reading the book was puzzlement. Puzzlement is compounded by the very different problems emphasized in different parts of the literature. This sense of estrangement is often associated with times of emotional or physical suffering, but may simply arise from the sense of awful puzzlement at our own being. This puzzlement has to do with the illusion that ostensive definitions are one-time baptisms of words with meanings that do not require any stage setting in language. Thinking this way we would find that the moral agent keeps a ready stock of resources useful for various moral puzzlements - old stories, memories, wisdom sayings, pithy maxims. We expect that to be abided by strictly, but it adds to the air of puzzlement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have been reading this with some puzzlement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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