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　

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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.
  1. Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
     对于外界而言，伊朗仍是个谜。
  2. ...a story which makes clear the modern enigma of spirituality.
     解开现代灵性之谜的故事

英英释义

noun

• something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
  1. how it got out is a mystery
  2. it remains one of nature's secrets
  Synonym:mysterysecretclosed book
• a difficult problem
  Synonym:riddleconundrumbrain-teaser

双语例句

• The human remains of what you term'Spirit Cave Man'found in Grimes Point is an enigma to your anthropologist.
  在格里姆斯被发现的你们所称的“灵性洞穴人”的骸骨对你们人类学家来说是一个大谜团。
• 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。
• ENIGMA 3 combined and reinterpreted these elements, providing an evolutionary synthesis of previous ENIGMA works.
  《谜3》结合并重新诠释了这些元素，是“谜”前两部作品的一种演进性的综合。
• Enigma of Life and Beauty of Transcendent Experience A Dream of Red Mansions;
  人生之谜和超验之美&体悟《红楼梦》
• Iran remains an enigma for the outside world.
  对于外界而言，伊朗仍是个谜。
• That is an enigma, dear ones.
  那是一个谜，亲爱的你们。
• 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。
• Young buyers "millennials" in the parlance of marketers present an enigma for auto executives.
  年轻消费者，也就是营销人员口中的“千禧一代”，对汽车厂商的高管来说似乎是个谜团。
• Crack a notoriously difficult mathematical enigma within two years and the money's yours.
  只要你能在两年内求证一个著名的数学难题，这些钱就是你的了。
• Basically he is the force behind ENIGMA.
  从根本上来说他是“谜”的强大后盾。