boggle
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boggle (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 boggles, 現在分詞 boggling, 一般過去時及過去分詞 boggled)
- (及物或不及物) （使...）僵住，（使...）定住，（使...）退縮
- The dogs went on, but the horse boggled at the sudden appearance of the strange beast.
- 那群狗繼續向前衝，但是馬看到突然出現的奇怪野獸僵住了。
- The horror of the deed and its consequences boggle the imagination.
- 這種行為和它後果的可怕讓想象停了下來。
- Do by thy soul, when thou findest it shy of such meditations, as wee do by our horses, that are given to boggle and start when wee ride them; When they fly back, and start at anything in the way, we do not yield to their fear, and go back (that will make them worse another time) but wee ride them up close to that they are afraid of, and so in time break them of that ill quality. [1]
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, 出版於 1962，頁號 18:
- He boggled at arranging for bread to be left daily at some place within easy walking distance, but let that go.
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- (不及物) 困惑，混亂，不解
- He boggled at the surprising news.
- 他聽到了這個讓人吃驚的消息愣住了。
- The mind boggles.
- 難以置信。
- 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden, Chapter 14, p. 131,[2]
- […] we start and boggle at what is unusual: and like the Fox in the fable at his first view of the Lyon, we cannot endure the sight of the Bug-bear, Novelty.
- 1685, Isaac Barrow, Of Contentment, Patience and Resignation to the Will of God. Several Sermons, London: Brabazon Aylmer, Sermon 4, pp. 127-128,[3]
- They are best qualified to thrive in [this world] […] whose designs all tend to their own private advantage, without any regard to the publick, or to the good of others; who can use any means conducible to such designs, bogling at nothing which serveth their purpose […]
- 1795, Mary Wollstonecraft, letter to Gilbert Imlay dated 4 October, 1795, in Mary Wollstonecraft: Letters to Imlay, London: Kegan Paul, 1879, p. 182,[4]
- From the tenour of your last letter however, I am led to imagine, that you have formed some new attachment.—If it be so, let me earnestly request you to see me once more, and immediately. This is the only proof I require of the friendship you profess for me. I will then decide, since you boggle about a mere form.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 15, p. 82,[5]
- My imagination boggled at the punishment I would deserve […]
- (及物) 使...困惑，使...迷惑
- The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
- 寬敞的空間讓人難以置信。
- The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike.
- 量子力學的奇異讓學生們，也讓經驗豐富的物理學家們摸不着頭腦。
- (美國，方言) 使...無從下手；含糊其辭；出錯，出糗
- (不及物，棄用，帶with) 掩飾，糊弄
- 1643, James Howell, The True Informer, London, p. 32,[6]
- I would be loth to exchange consciences with them, and boggle so with God Almighty; but these men by a new kind of Metaphysick have found out a way to abstract the Person of the King from his Office to make his Soveraigntie a kinde of Platonick Idea hovering in the aire, while they visibly attempt to assail and destroy his person […]
- 1643, James Howell, The True Informer, London, p. 32,[6]
- (不及物，指老鼠) 磨牙時動眼睛
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boggle (複數 boggles)
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boggle (複數 boggles)
- bogle的另一種寫法