perplex

英 [pəˈpleks]

美 [pərˈpleks]

v.  迷惑; 使困惑

过去分词：perplexed　现在分词：perplexing　第三人称单数：perplexes　过去式：perplexed　复数：perplexes　

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BNC.18685 / COCA.15354

牛津词典

verb

• 迷惑；使困惑
  if sth perplexes you, it makes you confused or worried because you do not understand it
  1. They were perplexed by her response.
     她的答复令他们困惑不解。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使困惑；使担心；迷惑
  If somethingperplexesyou, it confuses and worries you because you do not understand it or because it causes you difficulty.
  1. It perplexed him because he was tackling it the wrong way.
     由于处理不当，这个问题令他大伤脑筋。

英英释义

verb

• make more complicated
  1. There was a new development that complicated the matter
  Synonym:complicate
• be a mystery or bewildering to
  1. This beats me!
  2. Got me--I don't know the answer!
  3. a vexing problem
  4. This question really stuck me
  Synonym:vexstickgetpuzzlemystifybafflebeatposebewilderflummoxstupefynonplusgravelamazedumbfound

双语例句

• It perplexed him because he was tackling it the wrong way.
  由于处理不当，这个问题令他大伤脑筋。
• Even before the harassment stories reared their head, his popularity was beginning to perplex professional political analysts.
  甚至在骚扰事件出现之前，他的支持率就已经开始使的专业的职业分析师们困惑了。
• Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme;
  一个不容易发生嫉妒的人，可是一旦被人煽动以后，就会糊涂到极点；
• In the specific social-cultural background of the Song Dynasty, childbearing witchcraft might as well be a way to solve the conflict between womans natural duty and their bearing perplex.
  在宋代特定的社会文化背景下，生育巫术不失为解决女性天职与生育困扰之间冲突的一种方法。
• This type of situation, will perplex a lot of people, why would Hangzhou want to develop industry?
  这样的情况下，很多人也会困惑：杭州还要不要发展工业？
• I have no wish to perplex the issue.
  我不想使问题复杂化。
• All around, there were monuments carved with armorial bearings; and on this simple slab of slate as the curious investigator may still discern, and perplex himself with the purport there appeared the semblance of an engraved escutcheon.
  周围全是刻着家族纹章的碑石；而在这一方简陋的石板上好奇的探索者仍会看见，却不明所以了有着类似盾形纹章的刻痕。
• It is not worth while to perplex the reader with inquiries into the aBstract nature of evidence
  没有必要用对证据抽象本性的调查来迷惑读者
• The problem, such as sediment and salinization, is both of key factor to influence Yellow diversion irrigated area development, the water resources in the Yellow River brings benefits to us while it brings perplex to us.
  泥沙和盐渍化问题是影响引黄灌区发展的两个关键因素，黄河水资源在给我们带来效益的同时，也带来了这两个问题的困扰。
• This problem is hard enough to perplex even the teacher.
  这个问题确实很难，以至于老师都迷惑不解。