enigma
enigma 英 [ɪˈnɪgmə] 美 [ɪˈnɪɡmə]
n. 谜；费解的事物
名词复数:enigmas
- Use the noun enigma to refer to something that is a puzzle or a mystery. Why do you have to learn difficult words like this? That is an enigma.
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- n. 谜；费解的事物
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1. Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
伊朗对外部世界而言依然是个谜。
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2. People love enigma and mystery.
人们喜欢谜一样的事物。
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3. Consciousness is still an enigma.
知觉仍是一个不解之谜。
- enigma (n.) 1530s, "statement which conceals a hidden meaning or known thing under obscure words or forms," earlier enigmate (mid-15c.), from Latin aenigma "riddle," from Greek ainigma (plural ainigmata) "a dark saying, riddle," from ainissesthai "speak obscurely, speak in riddles," from ainos "tale, story; saying, proverb;" according to Liddell & Scott, a poetic and Ionic word, of unknown origin. General sense in English of "anything inexplicable to an observer" is from c. 1600.
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