conundrum

• n. 难题；谜语

牛津大学俚语，模仿拉丁词创造出来的假拉丁词，用以形容食古不化的学究，准确词源不详。可能来自PIE*kwo, 表疑问，衍生英语词汇how, who,what,which,why, quality, quantity.

1. a difficult problem

conundrum

conundrum: [16] Conundrum originally appeared in all manner of weird and wonderful guises – conimbrum, conuncrum, quonundrum, connunder, etc – before settling down to conundrum in the late 18th century. It bears all the marks of one of the rather heavy-handed quasi-Latin joke words beloved of scholars in the 16th and 17th centuries, and a mid-17thcentury commentator attributed it to Oxford university. At first it meant ‘whim’ and then ‘pun’; the current sense ‘puzzling problem’ did not develop until the end of the 18th century.

conundrum (n.)

1590s, Oxford University slang for "pedant," also "whim," etc., later (1790) "riddle, puzzle." Also spelled quonundrum. The sort of ponderous pseudo-Latin word that was once the height of humor in learned circles.

...this theological conundrum of the existence of evil and suffering in a world created by a good God.

在善良的上帝创造的世界里存在着邪恶和苦难这一神学之谜

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I asked him that conundrum you told me and he had the answer in a tick.

我问他你告诉我的那个谜,他马上就有了答案.

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Let me give you some history about a conundrum.

让我给你们一些关于谜题的历史.

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Roles are the tools to answer this conundrum.

角色就是回答这个难题的工具.

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In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, a thing as being too late.

面对展示在我们面前的这个生活和历史难题, 有一样东西叫做悔之晚矣.

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What I said was that there was some interest at Conundrum.

我说的是迷题出版社的人表示有兴趣.

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This is a conundrum. What do you think?

这是个玩弄字谜的难题. 你怎样认为?

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Let me tell you what science has done with the conundrum.

让我告诉你们科学与谜题曾有的关系.

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It is an old conundrum.

这是一个古老的难题.

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Values Conundrum: Will the U.S. and China Play by the Same Rules?

价值观难题: 美国和中国会遵循同样的规则 吗 ?

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Your mind resolves this conundrum by deciding that actually the study was pretty interesting after all.

你的大脑决定认为这个研究实际上比较有趣,以此来解决这个难题.

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The sliding dollar has presented custodians of the world's massive foreign exchange reserves a conundrum.

美元不断下跌,给全球拥有庞大外汇储备的国家出了一道难题.

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It is a conundrum in game theory known as a prisoner's dilemma.

这在搏弈理论中被称做囚徒的困境.

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A conundrum of a city, same scence, same routes and same destinies.

城市之谜.同样的场景, 同样的路线,同样的命运.

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It is an intriguing conundrum, but one a touch easier by Drogba's lively display.

这是一个有意思的问题, 但有一个人更轻易感受到德罗巴的表现.

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Senior US figures recognise this conundrum.

美国高层人士看穿了这一谜局.

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A conundrum in the analysis of change.

阿在变化的分析难题.

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The U.S. economy is a conundrum.

当前的美国经济是一个困局.

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A question or statement requiring thought to answer or understand; a conundrum.

需要思考才能回答或理解的问题或陈述; 谜语.

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But it took a Hungarian politician to turn a logical conundrum into a political strategy.

不过这句话却让一位匈牙利政治家把一句逻辑难题变成了一个政治策略.

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Perhaps the largest conundrum to face MacArthur Fellows is figuring out why they were chosen.

也许麦克阿瑟奖获得者面临的最大难题就是弄清楚为什么选择了他们.

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Scientists had focused on two explanations to solve this conundrum.

科学家已锁定两种解释来解开这个难题。

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