conundrum
conundrum 英 [kəˈnʌndrəm] 美 [kəˈnʌndrəm]
n. 难题；谜语
名词复数:conundrums
- The tricky word conundrum is used to describe a riddle or puzzle, sometimes including a play on words or pun.
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- n. 难题；谜语
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1. France has grappled with this conundrum for years.
法国就已经为了这个难题苦恼多年。
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2. How life had first made proteins without enzymes, which presumably had to be proteins themselves, had been a chicken-and-egg conundrum.
生命最初如何在没有酶（可能是蛋白质本身）的情况下合成蛋白质？ 这是个鸡与蛋谁先产生的难题。
- conundrum (n.) 1590s, an abusive term for a person, perhaps meaning "a pedant;" c. 1600, "a whim;" 1640s, "pun or word-play," a word of unknown origin, said in 17c. to be Oxford University slang. Perhaps the sort of ponderous mock-Latin word that was once the height of humor in learned circles; Skeat suggests Latin conandrum "a thing to be attempted" as the source. Also spelled quonundrum.
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