boggle
boggle 英 [ˈbɒgl] 美 [ˈbɔgl]
vi. 犹豫，退缩；惊恐 vt. 搞糟，弄坏；使……惊奇；使……困惑 n. 犹豫，退缩；惊奇
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- To boggle is to amaze, astonish, or overwhelm. Your mind might boggle at all the information your physics teacher writes on the board on the first day of class.
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- vi. 犹豫，退缩；惊恐
- vt. 搞糟，弄坏；使……惊奇；使……困惑
- n. 犹豫，退缩；惊奇
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1. We shouldn't boggle at this opportunity to make a profit.
对这个赚钱的机会我们不应犹豫。
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2. For word games, try such games as Scrabble, boggle, and Cranium to extend your vocabulary.
至于文字游戏，试着玩一下像Scrabble、Boggle和Cranium这样的游戏来扩充你的单词量。
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3. If I keep at it, I might even become a world class boggle player.
如果我能保持这种趋势，我也许甚至可以成为一个世界级的拼字玩家！
- boggle (v.) 1590s, "to start with fright (as a startled horse does), shy, take alarm," from Middle English bugge "specter" (among other things, supposed to scare horses at night); see bug (n.); also compare bogey (n.1), boggart. The meaning " hesitate, stop as if afraid to proceed in fear of unforeseen difficulties" is from 1630s; that of "confound, cause to hesitate" is from 1640s. As a noun from 1650s. Related: Boggled; boggling; boggler (from c. 1600 as "one who hesitates").
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