puzzle

英 ['pʌz(ə)l] 美['pʌzl]

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复数: puzzles;第三人称单数: puzzles;过去式: puzzled;过去分词: puzzled;现在分词: puzzling;形容词: puzzling;

puzzle 迷惑，使困惑，谜，谜语

可能来自pose,提问，发问，提出问题，-le,表反复。引申名词词义谜，谜语。

puzzle: puzzle: [16] The origin of puzzle is, appropriately, a puzzle. One suggestion is that it may be derived from the now obsolete verb pose ‘interrogate, perplex’ (which survives in poser ‘difficult question or problem’), a shortened form of appose ‘interrogate or question severely’. This came from Old French aposer, a variant of oposer, from which English gets oppose. Another possibility is some connection with the Old English verb puslian ‘pick out the best bits’, which is reminiscent of puzzle out ‘find or solve by laborious reasoning’ (although that sense of puzzle is not recorded until the end of the 18th century).
puzzle (v.): 1590s, pusle "bewilder, confound," possibly frequentative of pose (v.) in obsolete sense of "perplex" (compare nuzzle from nose). Related: Puzzled; puzzling.
puzzle (n.): c. 1600, "state of being puzzled," from puzzle (v.); meaning "perplexing question" is from 1650s; that of "a toy contrived to test one's ingenuity" is from 1814.

1. A rather neat option allows you to design your own fiendish puzzle.: 只要干净利落地做一个选择，你就能自己设计出难以解开的谜题。

3. Her mother sighed and rubbed out another mistake in the crossword puzzle.: 她的母亲叹了口气，擦去了纵横填字游戏里另一个填错的地方。