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

• Decidedly this man was an enigma.
  这人真是个谜。
• This question still remains as an enigma in the Western literary research.
  一直是西方文学研究中的难解之谜。
• Mr Modi remains an enigma.
  莫迪依然是一个谜。
• 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）。
• Historically they proved to be an enigma.
  历史证明它仍然是个谜团。
• 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。
• REM sleep, however, is the proverbial riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
  然而REM睡眠，却是众所皆知的包于谜团中的谜中之谜。
• He is an enigma to all of us.
  对我们而言，他是个神秘莫测的人物。
• 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。
• Crack a notoriously difficult mathematical enigma within two years and the money's yours.
  只要你能在两年内求证一个著名的数学难题，这些钱就是你的了。