riddle
n.谜,谜语,神秘人物v.解谜,出谜,迷惑
英文释义
n. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
n. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
v. t. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
v. t. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
n. Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
v. t. To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
v. i. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
词干
riddle 谜,谜语
→ 词源同 read,读,理解,猜测,-le,小词后缀。引申词义谜,谜语。
