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

• How can he successfully resolved that problem is still an enigma.
  他如何成功解决那个难题仍是个谜。
• Whichever way you look at the Eocene enigma, it is bad news for life on Earth.
  无论用何种途径来观察始新世温室的这个谜，都对地球上生命带来不好的消息。
• Historically they proved to be an enigma.
  历史证明它仍然是个谜团。
• 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。
• It is the enigma of life itself that you desire me to solve.
  你要我解决的是人生之谜。
• ENIGMA 3 combined and reinterpreted these elements, providing an evolutionary synthesis of previous ENIGMA works.
  《谜3》结合并重新诠释了这些元素，是“谜”前两部作品的一种演进性的综合。
• Decidedly this man was an enigma.
  这人真是个谜。
• Young buyers "millennials" in the parlance of marketers present an enigma for auto executives.
  年轻消费者，也就是营销人员口中的“千禧一代”，对汽车厂商的高管来说似乎是个谜团。
• 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。