puzzle

英 ['p?z(?)l] 美['p?zl]

CET6中低頻詞CET4TEM4IELTS考研TOEFL核心詞匯

復數:?puzzles;第三人稱單數:?puzzles;過去式:?puzzled;過去分詞:?puzzled;現在分詞:?puzzling;形容詞:?puzzling;

puzzle 迷惑，使困惑，謎，謎語

可能來自pose,提問，發問，提出問題，-le,表反復。引申名詞詞義謎，謎語。

puzzle: puzzle: [16] The origin of puzzle is, appropriately, a puzzle. One suggestion is that it may be derived from the now obsolete verb pose ‘interrogate, perplex’ (which survives in poser ‘difficult question or problem’), a shortened form of appose ‘interrogate or question severely’. This came from Old French aposer, a variant of oposer, from which English gets oppose. Another possibility is some connection with the Old English verb puslian ‘pick out the best bits’, which is reminiscent of puzzle out ‘find or solve by laborious reasoning’ (although that sense of puzzle is not recorded until the end of the 18th century).
puzzle (v.): 1590s, pusle "bewilder, confound," possibly frequentative of pose (v.) in obsolete sense of "perplex" (compare nuzzle from nose). Related: Puzzled; puzzling.
puzzle (n.): c. 1600, "state of being puzzled," from puzzle (v.); meaning "perplexing question" is from 1650s; that of "a toy contrived to test one's ingenuity" is from 1814.

1. A rather neat option allows you to design your own fiendish puzzle.: 只要干凈利落地做一個選擇，你就能自己設計出難以解開的謎題。

3. Her mother sighed and rubbed out another mistake in the crossword puzzle.: 她的母親嘆了口氣，擦去了縱橫填字游戲里另一個填錯的地方。