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
Collins.1 / BNC.14427 / COCA.14247
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.- Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
对于外界而言，伊朗仍是个谜。 - ...a story which makes clear the modern enigma of spirituality.
解开现代灵性之谜的故事
- Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
英英释义
noun
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- how it got out is a mystery
- it remains one of nature's secrets
- a difficult problem
双语例句
- His disappearance is an enigma.
他的失踪是个谜。 - It is the enigma of life itself that you desire me to solve.
你要我解决的是人生之谜。 - Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
对于外界而言，伊朗仍是个谜。 - This idea has unveiled the enigma of the origin of ancient Ba people in China, and has initiated a new phase for the early Ba culture studies in China as well.
这揭开了我国古代巴人的起源之谜，也开创了我国早期巴文化研究的新局面。 - 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。 - 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。 - Nevertheless, voles are an "evolutionary enigma" with many bizarre traits, DeWoody said.
但是野鼠是包含许多奇怪特性的“进化中的谜”，代物第说道。 - The idea then that Machiavelli is doing no more than saying openly and overtly what ancient writers had wrapped in parable and enigma and myth says something about Machiavelli's new political science.
马基雅维利只不过是，公然说出了古代作家们，以寓言，谜以及神话的形式包裹的内容，这种看法一定程度上阐明了马基雅维利的。 - Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable.
所有的一切，在这个离奇的哑谜中，是无法解释的。 - That is an enigma, dear ones.
那是一个谜，亲爱的你们。