perplex

英 [pəˈpleks]

美 [pərˈpleks]

v.  迷惑; 使困惑

过去分词：perplexed　现在分词：perplexing　第三人称单数：perplexes　过去式：perplexed　复数：perplexes　

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BNC.18685 / COCA.15354

牛津词典

verb

• 迷惑；使困惑
  if sth perplexes you, it makes you confused or worried because you do not understand it
  1. They were perplexed by her response.
     她的答复令他们困惑不解。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使困惑；使担心；迷惑
  If somethingperplexesyou, it confuses and worries you because you do not understand it or because it causes you difficulty.
  1. It perplexed him because he was tackling it the wrong way.
     由于处理不当，这个问题令他大伤脑筋。

英英释义

verb

• make more complicated
  1. There was a new development that complicated the matter
  Synonym:complicate
• be a mystery or bewildering to
  1. This beats me!
  2. Got me--I don't know the answer!
  3. a vexing problem
  4. This question really stuck me
  Synonym:vexstickgetpuzzlemystifybafflebeatposebewilderflummoxstupefynonplusgravelamazedumbfound

双语例句

• By undue profoundity we perplex and enfeeble thought.
  过于认为奥妙，我们思想反而模糊不清。
• It perplexed him because he was tackling it the wrong way.
  由于处理不当，这个问题令他大伤脑筋。
• This type of situation, will perplex a lot of people, why would Hangzhou want to develop industry?
  这样的情况下，很多人也会困惑：杭州还要不要发展工业？
• I used to draw a comparison between him and Hindley Earnshaw, and perplex myself to explain satisfactorily why their conduct was so opposite in similar circumstances.
  我总是拿他和辛德雷·恩萧相比，我想来想去也难以满意地解释出为什么他们在相似的情况下，行为却如此相反。
• Long-term since, poverty is one of the problems which perplex the harmonious development of society.
  长期以来，贫困问题是困扰社会和谐发展的难点之一。
• If not be handled properly, it will perplex even injure the good-neighbourliness and friendly relation between two parties by the root over a long period of time.
  若处理不当，将会长期困扰甚至从根本上损害双方来之不易的睦邻友好关系。
• It is not worth while to perplex the reader with inquiries into the aBstract nature of evidence
  没有必要用对证据抽象本性的调查来迷惑读者
• All around, there were monuments carved with armorial bearings; and on this simple slab of slate as the curious investigator may still discern, and perplex himself with the purport there appeared the semblance of an engraved escutcheon.
  周围全是刻着家族纹章的碑石；而在这一方简陋的石板上好奇的探索者仍会看见，却不明所以了有着类似盾形纹章的刻痕。
• Post-harvest diseases of tomato have been a big problem to perplex the development of tomato industry.
  番茄采后的腐烂一直是困扰番茄业发展的一个大问题。
• Don't perplex her with the question.
  你不要以这个问题困惑她。