perplexity
perplexity 英 [pə'pleksɪtɪ] 美 [pɚ'plɛksəti]
n. 困惑；混乱
名词复数:perplexities
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- n. 困惑；混乱
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1. Either no one had an answer, or they provided the stock response and would not see my perplexity at all.
要么是没人解答问题，要么是有人根本不理解我的困惑，给出落入俗套的答复。
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2. With her mind harassed by the terrible perplexity in which the shipmaster's intelligence involved her, she was also subjected to another trial.
船长的这一通知将她投入了可怕的困惑之中，折磨得她心烦意乱，可这时她还要面对另一个考验。
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3. Yea, this ego, with its contradiction and perplexity, speaketh most uprightly of its being -- this creating, willing, evaluing ego, which is the measure and value of things.
是啊，这个自我，以其矛盾和混乱的方式，最坦诚地谈说它的存在——这个开创、期盼、评估的自我，它是事物的尺度和价值。
- perplexity (n.) c. 1300, "bewilderment," from Old French perplexite "confusion, perplexity," from Late Latin perplexitatem (nominative perplexitas), from Latin perplexus "confused, involved, interwoven," from per- "completely" + plexus "entangled," past participle of plectere "to twine" (from suffixed form of PIE root *plek- "to plait"). From 1590s as "something that causes perplexity."
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