flummox
发音
英 [ˈflʌməks]
美 [ˈflʌməks]
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- vt.
- <口>使困惑，使慌乱
单词词源
flummox 糊涂
词源不详。可能来自辅音丛fl, 扑腾，拍打，词源同flap, flounce, flimflam. 引申词义混乱，迷糊。
双语例句
- 1. The lawyer cross-examined the witness , trying his best to flummox .
- 律师盘问证人，努力使他茫然失措。
- 2. These patterns flummox researchers and , according to wilson , they will continue to remain mysterious until we look at culture for an answer .
- 这些问题让擅下断语的研究人员大感窘迫，而据威尔逊之言，只有当我们在文化中寻求答案时他们才不再神秘。
- 3. Ambivalent teams and individuals that are unable to make or hold to decisions can flummox discussions as easily as stubbornness can .
- 充满矛盾的、不能做出决定或不能坚持决定的团体和个人，如同顽固者一样很容易使谈判陷入僵局。
- 4. He kept the party quiet during four months of student demonstrations against rises in tuition fees in quebec-a silence that seemed to flummox the conservative attack machine .
- 学生们对魁北克学费上涨问题进行了长达四个月的抗议，他让自己的党派在抗议期间保持沉默，这让保守党的攻击组织困惑不已。
- 5. Some aspects of reality - a unified theory of physics , or a theory of consciousness - might elude our understanding simply because they 're beyond the powers of human brains , just as surely as quantum mechanics would flummox a chimpanzee .
- 现实的某些方面（比如，我们难以理解物理的统一理论或认知理论）也许会使我们有所困惑，可这只是因为它们超出了人类大脑的能力范围，正如量子力学必定会令黑猩猩大惑不解一样。