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词汇 riddling
释义 riddling
present participle ofriddle
riddle
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈrɪd.əl/ us /ˈrɪd.əl/
to make a lot of holes in something: 使布满洞孔
The anti-aircraft guns riddled the plane's wings with bullets.高射炮炮弹把机翼打得千疮百孔。
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Making holes in things
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riddle

Examples of riddling


riddling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Such riddling acknowledges the commodifications of aestheticism, while celebrating its capacity to evoke beauty for its own sake.
Reading and riddling : the role of riddle appreciation in understanding and improving poor text comprehension in children.
In perhaps the most striking of the essay's tableaux, "charm" is less in evidence than an abundance of riddling details.
Such organic proximity to flesh means that music touches all too intimately on the body's nervous system, thus riddling the means and ends, the material and immaterial properties of art.
The essence of riddling is to push language beyond its customary rule-governed categories through the bold use of metaphor, paronomasia, personification and any of a number of other rhetorical stratagems.
Basin riddling occurs when these sets also contain a dense set of periodic orbits which are repelling in the transverse direction.
The lady was riddling with an instrument used for riddling fires which, in global terms, is called a riddler.
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She was riddling her fire and had a notice served on her by her local authority.
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The position is not materially affected by the arrangements for the riddling and despatching of potatoes which have been adopted during the present season.
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That could be offset by more careful harvesting and riddling, checking the damage done at the moment.
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I am sure that he checked at what time the riddling took place.
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It has been suggested that the question of riddling was one of some importance.
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While riddling her fire, she was upsetting the people next door, who were probably riddling with something else in their bedroom.
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What was she riddling it with—a telegraph pole?
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There were underlying weaknesses riddling the economy.
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