baffle
英语
[编辑]其他形式
[编辑]词源
[编辑]不详。可能与法語 bafouer (“藐视”)或已弃用的法語 befer (“嘲笑”)有关，[1]经由苏格兰语bauchle (“羞辱”)。[2]
发音
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[编辑]baffle (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 baffles，現在分詞 baffling，一般過去時及過去分詞 baffled)
- 使...困惑，使...不解，迷惑 （自17世纪）
- 近義詞：參見Thesaurus:confuse
- I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.
- 指示里的自相矛盾和疏漏让我一头雾水。
- (不及物) 无谓地挣扎 （19世纪）
- A ship baffles with the winds.
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- (現罕用) 制止，阻止，挫败 （自17世纪）
- 1798, William Cowper, On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture:
- the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim
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- 1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra:
- It may have been the failure of Christianity to emancipate itself from expiatory theories of moral responsibility, guilt, innocence, reward, punishment, and the rest of it, that baffled its intention of changing the world.
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- 1915, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales:
- So they had to search the world again for a sphinx. And still there was none. But they were not men that it is easy to baffle, and at last they found a sphinx in a desert at evening watching a ruined temple whose gods she had eaten hundreds of years ago when her hunger was on her.
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- (棄用) 当众羞辱 （尤指骑士） （16-17世纪）
- 1596, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, “Book VI, Canto VII”, 出自 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]）, London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- He by the heeles him hung upon a tree, / And baffuld so, that all which passed by / The picture of his punishment might see […].
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- (棄用) 欺骗 （16-18世纪）
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Duty of Prayer”, 出自 The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], 卷s (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], 出版於 1830–1831, →OCLC:
- pretences to baffle with his goodness
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衍生词汇
[编辑]词语搭配
[编辑](困惑)：
- to be baffled as to why/how (something happened) ― 不知道某事为何发生
名词
[编辑]baffle (複數 baffles)
- （声音、光、液体等的）反射板，挡板
- 科西嘉語
- Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.
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- （困惑敌人用的）障壁
- (美國，方言，coal mining) 卷扬机的节流阀控制杆
衍生词汇
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[编辑]参考资料
[编辑]- ↑ “baffle”, Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “baffle”, 《在线词源词典》（Online Etymology Dictionary）
延伸阅读
[编辑]- “baffle”, Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
法语
[编辑]词源
[编辑]发音
[编辑]名词
[编辑]baffle m 或 f (複數 baffles)
- 扬声器，音响
- 近義詞：haut-parleur