baffling的意思|baffling的解释-里氏词典

baffling ['bæfl.ɪŋ]

a. 阻碍的, 使困惑的, 不可理解的

[化] 折流

A baffling question or problem.
把人难住的问题或难题
Possessing distinctive qualities that produce unaccountable or baffling effects.
有魔力的拥有特殊的能产生令人无法预计或使人迷惑效果的能力的
He put forward a baffling question.
他提出了一个难题。

baffling

[ adj ]
making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
<adj.all>
a baffling problemI faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
a problematic situation at home

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.

Baffling \Baf"fling\ (b[a^]f"fl[i^]ng), a.
Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling
currents, winds, tasks. -- {Baff"ling*ly}, adv. --
{Baff"ling*ness}, n.

Once again, Holmes is thrust into "a most extraordinary and tragic affair," a baffling case of abduction and murder.
The law has become so comprehensive and so specific as to be in many areas utterly baffling, not only to taxpayers but also to their accountants and attorneys and to the civil servants charged with administering it.
Director Michael Smuin has mastered the wizardry of modern stage technology but he can't do much with a baffling narrative and pedestrian music and lyrics.
For example, there's the baffling case of a young child who simply stopped growing for a year and a half.
Together, after 18 baffling months of dead-end days and floor-walking nights that temporarily collapsed Friedman into a mental ward, they broke the Japanese diplomatic code.
Steven Beall, who led the research at Caltech, said that although the finding was preliminary, it provided "a very exciting lead" for one of the most baffling illnesses.
He said allegations of conflict of interest from federal regulators "are frivolous." "The fact they are being pursued is baffling to me," said Bush, 34, an oil and gas developer.
The union's actions have been "baffling and frustrating," says Sanford N. McDonnell, the company's chief executive, adding that he has fielded some phone calls from angry airline customers.
Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, a Kennedy White House aide, found him "the perfect number-two man" _ "a baffling leader" who had "authority but not command."
There remains something baffling about last week's concerted intervention to support the dollar.
"It's baffling how you can send out a proposal to a big corporation and hear nothing," Mrs. Hughes, 44, says.
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.
By the end of a 13-day trade fair, Soviet officials found the American business world a bit baffling, but the more than $300 million worth of contracts signed at the exhibition left them eager to learn more.
Bush aides say the "thousand points of light" line, which has evolved into a description of volunteer and charity efforts that supplement government assistance, was first a little baffling to the vice president.
That the dollar actually rose yesterday was thus baffling.
It creates a baffling paradox, one that American industry must resolve if it is to keep pace with the often smaller, more agile entrepreneurs of Southeast Asia.
Compared with this masterful portrait, I found her performance Saturday vocally baffling, if hardly the disheveled, coarse piece of work described by others attending earlier performances.

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