enigma

英 [ɪˈnɪɡmə]

美 [ɪˈnɪɡmə]

n.  神秘的人; 费解的事物; 令人困惑的处境

复数：enigmas　

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牛津词典

noun

• 神秘的人；费解的事物；令人困惑的处境
  a person, thing or situation that is mysterious and difficult to understand

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 难解之谜;费解的事;费解的人
  If you describe something or someone as anenigma, you mean they are mysterious or difficult to understand.
  1. Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
     对于外界而言，伊朗仍是个谜。
  2. ...a story which makes clear the modern enigma of spirituality.
     解开现代灵性之谜的故事

英英释义

noun

• something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
  1. how it got out is a mystery
  2. it remains one of nature's secrets
  Synonym:mysterysecretclosed book
• a difficult problem
  Synonym:riddleconundrumbrain-teaser

双语例句

• It is the enigma of life itself that you desire me to solve.
  你要我解决的是人生之谜。
• Decidedly this man was an enigma.
  这人真是个谜。
• She never yielded and never became an enigma.
  她从不屈服，从来没有成为一个不可思议的人。
• Anyway, this returns us to the enigma of Aristotle.
  无论如何，这将我们带回到，围绕亚里士多德的谜团。
• Think Enigma and the German military communications in World War II, for example.
  （比如，想一想二战时期Enigma和German的军事通信）。
• Basically he is the force behind ENIGMA.
  从根本上来说他是“谜”的强大后盾。
• Enigma of Life and Beauty of Transcendent Experience A Dream of Red Mansions;
  人生之谜和超验之美&体悟《红楼梦》
• Mr Modi remains an enigma.
  莫迪依然是一个谜。
• Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
  对于外界而言，伊朗仍是个谜。
• The idea then that Machiavelli is doing no more than saying openly and overtly what ancient writers had wrapped in parable and enigma and myth says something about Machiavelli's new political science.
  马基雅维利只不过是，公然说出了古代作家们，以寓言，谜以及神话的形式包裹的内容，这种看法一定程度上阐明了马基雅维利的。