Perplex

(verb.) be a mystery or bewildering to; 'This beats me!'; 'Got me--I don't know the answer!'; 'a vexing problem'; 'This question really stuck me'.

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• You puzzle me, Jane: your look and tone of sorrowful audacity perplex and pain me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• An open letter is the subject of the trooper's speculations, and it seems to perplex him mightily. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• There was no multitude of resources to perplex me--there was absolutely no one to depend on, in the first instance, but myself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She was rather surprised at Dr. Donaldson's early visit, and perplexed by the anxious faces of husband and child. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The dame looked more perplexed than before. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Cos, says Jo with a perplexed stare but without being at all shaken in his certainty, cos that there's the wale, the bonnet, and the gownd. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them,--will he not be perplexed? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Tarzan was perplexed. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• She looked perplexed, but made no answer. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Though he said this gaily, he said it with a perplexed and inquisitive face, as if he actually did not know what to make of himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The East came to the Western capitals with perplexing demands. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Honorius was succeeded by Gregory IX (1227), who evidently came to the papal throne with a nervous resolution to master this perplexing young man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Such an elaborately developed, perplexing, exciting dream was certainly never dreamed by a girl in Eustacia's situation before. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• By far the most perplexing of these new manufacturing problems was the lamp. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• If his progress downward had been attended with difficulties and uncertainty, his journey back was infinitely more perplexing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• We read in Hue's Travels how perplexing he and his fellow missionary found this possession of a common tradition of worship. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was a brilliant elucidation of what had been utterly perplexing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Hence the various purposes or inclinations that alternately prevail, and the uncertainty that perplexes us. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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