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 conundrum [kə'nʌndrəm]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 谜语, 难题

  1. Her question is a real conundrum.
    她提出的问题真是一个大难题。
  2. Another theoretical conundrum is entry to the auction.
    另一个理论难题是进入拍卖。
  3. Many people-- too many to count-- share your career conundrum.
    许多人--多的数不过来-有着和你一样的职业难题。


conundrum
[ noun ]
a difficult problem
<noun.communication>


Conundrum \Co*nun"drum\, n. [Origin unknown.]
1. A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic
resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling
question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.

Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. --J. Philips.

2. A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.

Do you think life is long enough to let me speculate
on conundrums like that? --W. Black.

  1. The greatest conundrum facing 450m people when communism collapsed in eastern and central Europe five years ago was how to create capitalism without capital.
  2. "Twenty percent want to flee Jordan," he says, "and the other 80% want to go to holy war." This feverish pro-Iraq sentiment creates what one ambassador in Amman calls "the king's conundrum."
  3. B. Alex Henderson of Prudential-Bache Securities was circumspect about the company's near-term prospects and said 3M finds itself in a conundrum.
  4. Initially, testing for the HIV represented a conundrum for insurance companies, however.
  5. One answer to this conundrum, therefore, is to select a fund which attempts to track the performance of the index. Gartmore has been running such a fund since 1989, and this week announced that it was abolishing the initial charge.
  6. The conundrum seemed insoluble.
  7. Try as we might, there can be no success in stabilising the economy unless the debt conundrum is resolved.
  8. The next few weeks will show whether there is enough left for all sides in the farm trade conundrum to declare themselves - however implausibly - the winners.
  9. The run-up in electricity shares this week suggests the market appreciates the likely outcome to the British Coal conundrum.
  10. He said the issue of enfranchisement continued to be reviewed by the board. The retail conundrum is whether Great Universal Stores, the giant mail-order, high-street retailing, property and finance group, will enfranchise its non-voting shares.
  11. Among the many baffling questions facing Brazilians living with the country's highest inflation rate ever, the conundrum of their new economic plan's name has now taken a prominent place.
  12. Exchange officials are aware of the conundrum: They can't build volume without investors, but investors eschew trading in a low-volume market.
  13. Thus, the conundrum posed by this case is not how to deal with terrorists, but how to deal with a government that uses accusations of terrorism as a cover for deporting people solely for their political ideas.
  14. Mr John Major says they should, and so do most of the economic statistics; but Gallup shows them clinging resolutely to gloom. A clue to this conundrum came yesterday from a leading feelgood factory, Grand Metropolitan's IDV drinks business.
  15. Where is the discipline, or rather virtue, in the system now? The conundrum is not entirely new.
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