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

• In the specific social-cultural background of the Song Dynasty, childbearing witchcraft might as well be a way to solve the conflict between womans natural duty and their bearing perplex.
  在宋代特定的社会文化背景下，生育巫术不失为解决女性天职与生育困扰之间冲突的一种方法。
• 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。
• 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。
• Therefore, realistic painting withdrew the leadership from these areas gradually and some perplex caused to them.
  因此，写实主义绘画在这些领域也渐渐退出主导地位，这多少给写实绘画的发展带来了一些困扰。
• 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。
• By undue profoundity we perplex and enfeeble thought.
  过于认为奥妙，我们思想反而模糊不清。
• Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme;
  一个不容易发生嫉妒的人，可是一旦被人煽动以后，就会糊涂到极点；
• 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。
• Self-abasement might result in incorrect psychological location, disorders in interpersonal communication, and even perplex psychology and behavior, and lead to psychological distortion.
  自卑可能导致错误的心理定势，人际交往障碍，甚至困扰心理及行为，造成心灵扭曲。
• Secondly, the irrationality of eros will perplex the rational civilization forever.
  其次，人不仅仅是逻各斯的动物，非理性的厄洛斯永远困扰着人类的理性文明。