baffled的意思|baffled的解释-里氏词典

baffled

v. 阻碍(阻挡,挫折,因扰,反抗)
a. 带障板的(阻挡的)

The question baffled me completely and I could not answer.
这个问题把我彻底难倒了，我答不出来。
She baffled all our attempts to find her.
她千方百计不让我们找到她.

baffled

[ noun ]

people who are frustrated and perplexed

<noun.group>

the children's faces clearly expressed the frustration of the baffled

[ adj ]

perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

<adj.all>

obviously bemused by his questions

bewildered and confused

a cloudy and confounded philosopher

just a mixed-up kid

she felt lost on the first day of school

Baffle \Baf"fle\ (b[a^]f"f'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baffled}
(-f'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Baffling} (-fl[i^]ng).] [Cf.
Lowland Scotch bauchle to treat contemptuously, bauch
tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icel. b[=a]gr uneasy, poor, or
b[=a]gr, n., struggle, b[ae]gja to push, treat harshly, OF.
beffler, beffer, to mock, deceive, dial. G. b["a]ppe mouth,
beffen to bark, chide.]
1. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a
recreant knight. [Obs.]

He by the heels him hung upon a tree,
And baffled so, that all which passed by
The picture of his punishment might see. --Spenser.

2. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim.
--Cowper.

3. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or
defeat; to thwart. ``A baffled purpose.'' --De Quincey.

A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them
all. --South.

Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until
within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened
nations. --Prescott.

The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle
us. --Locke.

{Baffling wind} (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one
point to another.

Syn: To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat.

baffled \baffled\ adj.
not understanding.

Syn: uncomprehending.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. discouraged by failure to accomplish a goal and uncertain
how to proceed; -- used especially of feelings of defeat
and discouragement.

Syn: balked, discomfited, discouraged, frustrated.
[WordNet 1.5]

We, listening, are baffled - and, finally, heartbroken.
Summit, who seemed baffled by the politicization of his nomination, noted that D'Amato had even spoken at his confirmation hearings.
That's the free advice college finance experts from the College Board on down are dispensing these days to parents baffled about how to pay the mounting costs of four years of college.
With 15 television cameras trained on him and scores of baffled tourists wandering through, Wright signed the massive bill at a ceremony in ornate Statuary Hall near the House chamber.
One question baffled analysts: Why didn't Santa Fe enter the market last week to buy vast amounts of its stock as Henley did?
Some lawyers are baffled by the absence of the trust and Mr. Getty from this case, in which the family's concerns closely parallel the museum's.
Her celebrity status has both pleased and baffled the seven-year CNN veteran. "The viewers don't even see me that much every night _ like for two minutes and I barely say anything," Battista said.
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said Wednesday his economic summit partners were "absolutely baffled" by Canada's constitutional crisis.
In the 72-page quarterly publication sent to his subscribers in September, Mr. Kimbell admitted being baffled by rising interest rates.
That would save us the cost of destroying them," said Mannino, who said he was baffled by the government's action.
Managers should not allow themselves to be baffled by the highly technical content.
The sudden and rapid advances in understanding neurofibromatosis, a genetic disease that has baffled medical scientists for a century, illustrates the power of biologists' new ability to find or "map" genes.
The discussions had baffled analysts who recommended the formerly high flying stock.
The fragile X syndrome has baffled geneticists ever since it was discovered in 1969 by Dr. Herbert A. Lubs, then at Yale University and now at the University of Miami.
Analysts were baffled about a sale price for the division, which Boeing purchased for $112 million from the Canadian government in 1986.
Some proprietors concede they're baffled by the holiday boom.
And while some traders admit being baffled by the dollar's resilience, they say the currency continues to draw strength from the nation's economic and political stability.
He said he was baffled until one day when he was moving some cattle and a Navy jet roared over.
The announcement, which baffled the stock market, was seen by many as a sign that ASKO's 866 million-mark share offering is in trouble.
If barometric pressure has you baffled, if the Dow Jones average has you dizzy, if you're likely to lie about having read that 550-page report still sitting on your desk, you've got it bad, pal _ INFORMATION ANXIETY.
A man from the drawing office says: 'This is only happening because it's in Scotland.' Many still seem baffled that British Steel should want to shut the enormous complex which dominates Motherwell.
Sir Ron's courage failed him, because he has been baffled by the technical arguments.
London share prices settled lower, after a bumpy ride that left many participants baffled and nervous ahead of today's U.K. trade data report, and that was affected by New York's lower opening.
They are baffled that there might be an answer to such a question.
"This trend, it makes no sense to me," Weinberg said. "I am baffled, in all honesty.
North Dakota isn't the only one baffled.
Diplomats in Rangoon said Thursday they were baffled by the mass release of criminals but speculated that the jails were being cleared to make way for political prisoners.
The Treasury bond market's swift recovery following the grim auction news baffled many traders and sparked numerous theories.
A few months ago, researchers at the McCann-Erickson ad agency were baffled after interviewing some low-income Southern women about the insecticide brands they used.
The folks at the Fed who more or less control the money supply are surprisingly baffled.

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