puzzle

单词辨析:

puzzle baffle bewilder confuse 【导航词义:困惑】
puzzle v. 使困惑,使迷惑
〔辨析〕

指无法理解某事而感到有些困扰。

〔例证〕

What puzzles him is why that movie is so popular.

令他不解的是,为什么那部电影如此受欢迎。

That question continues to puzzle scientists.

那个问题继续困扰着科学家们。

baffle v. 使困惑,难倒
〔辨析〕

指完全不能理解或解释问题、行为等。

〔例证〕

The cloze test baffled many students in her class.

完形填空测验难倒了她班上的很多学生。

He was completely baffled by her strange behaviour.

他完全被她怪异的举动搞糊涂了。

bewilder v. 使困惑,使迷茫
〔辨析〕

多指不知所措、无法清楚地思考,通常用被动语态。

〔例证〕

She was bewildered by his remarks.

他的话把她给弄糊涂了。

That young man was bewildered as to whom to believe.

那个年轻人给搞糊涂了,不知道该相信谁。

confuse v. 使困惑,把…弄糊涂
〔辨析〕

词义同 bewilder,但程度略轻。

〔例证〕

The detailed instructions for use only served to confuse me further.

所附的详细使用指南使我更加迷惑。

Some of the figures confused him.

其中一些数字把他给弄糊涂了。

相关例句:

This is really a puzzle to me.

这对我来说着实是道难题。

He left for his summer cottage to puzzle out what he might try next

他动身到他的避暑别墅去想清楚他下一步应该做什么。

This process is akin to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle

这个过程和拼图相似。

The puzzle niggled away in Arnold's mind.

这个谜团在阿诺德脑海里挥之不去。

We've got a new jigsaw puzzle!

我们有了一个新的拼图。

The firemen were in a puzzle about the cause of the fire.

消防队员对这场火灾的起因困惑不解。