puzzled
adj
confused and unable to understand something
'Dinner?' Sam asked, looking puzzled.
puzzled about/as to/at
John seemed puzzled about what the question meant.
puzzled that
Harry was puzzled that Nicholas didn't seem to recognize him.
puzzled look/expression/frown etc
Alice read the letter with a puzzled expression on her face.
1. We were puzzled by the sudden disappearance of our guide. 我们向导的突然失踪使我们迷惑了。
2. The shop assistant looked puzzled and Harry repeated the word, slowly stressing each syllable. 店员露出诧异的神色。哈里又慢慢地,一字一顿说了一遍这个词,
3. The genetic maps also shed new light on the origins of populations that have long puzzled scientists. 这一基因分布图谱对长期以来困绕着科学家的人种起源问题也做出了新的解释。
4. Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths. 长期以来,历史学家一直对雕刻在墙壁上、骨头上、古代长毛象的象牙上的点、线和形形色色的符号感到困惑不解。
5. She said women in Embu celebrated. Men were puzzled; some were hostile. 她说恩布市的妇女为此兴高采烈,而男人们则很不解,甚至有些心怀敌意。
6. Gouvernail's quiet personality puzzled Mrs.Baroda. 古韦内尔生性沉默,这令巴罗达太太颇为不解。
7. One expert believes the situation could be comparable to what occurred in the 16th century, when Europeans puzzled over how to classify the unfamiliar inhabitants of the Americas, and endlessly debated whether or not they were humans. 有位专家相信,这一情形类似于16世纪时的一种情况,当时的欧洲人对如何对美洲的陌生居民进行归类感到困惑,并无休止地争论他们究竟是不是人类。
8. I saw a cartoon recently which depicts a group of businessmen looking puzzled as they sit around a conference table; 最近我看了一部动画片,片子描述了一批坐在会议圆桌周围、看上去迷惑不解的商人。
9. For many years she has been puzzled as to why so many of the children in her study should be boys — at the top level, there are more boys than girls by a ratio of thirteen to one. 多年来,她对为何她的研究中有那么多的男孩感到困惑 -- 高级组中男孩女孩之比为13比1。
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