Definition of puzzle in English:

puzzle

verb ˈpʌz(ə)lˈpəzəl

[with object]

1Cause (someone) to feel confused because they cannot understand something.
使迷惑；使为难，使窘困
she was puzzled by the doctor's manner
Example sentencesExamples
- It puzzles me why this is beyond Kerry's understanding.
- For weeks it was a mystery which had puzzled the people of Bamford - an eagle owl perched on an electricity pylon.
- I will take just a very quick call to sort out one or two things that are obviously puzzling people.
- It puzzles me why so many people seem so unwilling to understand this.
- The people who puzzle him are those who don't read it and still hate it.
- It puzzles me that a person starting up a business can't even afford a sign-writer.
- Her doctor is puzzled how she walked around with such a big gash without feeling a thing, and it is odd.
- This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural.
- Both of these eccentricities puzzle people and often offend them. -
- In other rich people news, we're still puzzled beyond belief by the whole McCartney story.
- I am very puzzled why people with no helmets are stopped by police and these extremely noisy bikes have a free range.
- And here you have the explanation of that great riddle which used to puzzle people - evil and pain.
- I was puzzled that my doctor saw this as a cause for celebration but they are a breed apart.
- The doctor was puzzled, for the disease must have taken hold long ago.
- I can understand why you are puzzled, and certainly there is a somewhat surprising explanation for this.
- Mention also needs to be made about one related aspect of the current education system that puzzles me.
- Local people are puzzled by the find and were disgusted that anyone would dump carcasses in such a way.
- It just puzzles me why they didn't kill the Doctor when they had the chance.
- Doctors were puzzled because the fungus was thought to be found only in mosquitoes and other insects.
- We were puzzled by your remark that you had the standard and there is no other design, so we did a little detective work.
Synonyms
perplex, confuse, bewilder, bemuse, baffle, mystify, confound, nonplus, throw, set someone thinking
informal flummox, discombobulate, faze, stump, beat, make someone scratch their head, fog
archaic wilder, gravel, maze, pose
rare obfuscate
perplexed, confused, bewildered, bemused, baffled, mystified, confounded, nonplussed, at a loss, at sea
informal flummoxed, discombobulated, stumped, fazed, clueless, without a clue
Canadian &amp Australian/New Zealand informal bushed
archaic wildered, gravelled, mazed
1. 1.1no object Think hard about something because one cannot understand it.
  （因迷惑而）苦思；冥思苦想
  she was still puzzling over this problem when she reached the office
  她来到办公室时还在思考这个问题。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There's a sinister tie-in with Social Security, too, that needs puzzling over.
  Yet they maintain just enough ambiguity so that the audience is left still puzzling over the piece afterwards.
  I'm still puzzling over the film almost a week after seeing it and have no precedent as to whether this means I'll like it or not.
  All week I've been puzzling as to why there's been a heavy-duty garden sack neatly covering our washing basket.
  But that has not stopped some observers puzzling over why Kingdom should go public.
  Many happy hours can be spent puzzling over how to interpret this cheaply.
  Statisticians are puzzling over some peculiar trends in vehicle sales.
  Vivienne asked, puzzling over how his skin felt quite warm under her fingertips.
  In fact, critics around the world have been puzzling over how to classify Donnie Darko.
  John puzzled at the possible reasons for the break in speech, but decided that reason had very little to do with it.
  I can't sit puzzling over words when there are fresh-baked cakes to nibble.
  His mind flew from one wild idea to another as he tried to puzzle out the reason she was closeted in her room like that.
  Just as they are puzzling over the bizarre anomaly, something more shocking happens.
  I puzzled for quite a long time over the sort of threshold that I thought might be most appropriate.
  So next time you are puzzling over a piece of art, take more note of its context.
  I just won't be spending a lot of time in the meantime puzzling over her identity.
  Synonyms
  think hard about, give much thought to, rack one's brains about, mull over, muse over, ponder, brood about, contemplate, meditate on, consider, reflect on, deliberate on, chew over, turn over in one's mind, cogitate on, wonder about, ask oneself about
  archaic pore on
2. 1.2puzzle something out Solve or understand something by thinking hard.
  （通过苦苦思索）解决（或弄清楚），理出头绪
  she was trying to puzzle out who the speakers were
  Example sentencesExamples
  I present it for folks who are better at puzzling their way out of things.
  And there's something I need to work on about forgiveness, to myself and others, but I haven't puzzled it out quite yet.
  He was trying to puzzle things out when an orb of light came slowly down into the crevice.
  If you can't use a dictionary to puzzle things out in a script, you are in trouble as an actor.
  I'm still trying to puzzle out how the Slayer's ersatz sister figures into everything.
  I shall not identify which daughter said which thing, leaving it as a task for the reader to puzzle it out.
  Tam was sitting up in her cage, trying to puzzle things out.
  It'll irritate me, this will, until I've puzzled it out.
  There may have been some interesting birds hidden behind the flocks of Canada Geese and American Black Duck, but we were too cold to puzzle them out.
  Which means that eight years after arriving in the valley, he's still puzzling things out.
  Synonyms
  work out, understand, comprehend, think out, think through, sort out, reason out, solve, make sense of, get to the bottom of, make head or tail of, unravel, untangle, decipher, decode, find the key to, piece together
  informal figure out, suss out, crack

noun ˈpʌz(ə)lˈpəzəl

1A game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge.
测验智力（或知识）的游戏（或玩具，问题）
those who solve this puzzle in the shortest time are eligible for awards
a book with picture puzzles
Example sentencesExamples
- They will play games, solve puzzles, and ask questions like: Why can I remember baseball scores but forget where I put my keys?
- Any puzzle, or solitaire game, can be turned into a multi-player game by making a contest out of solving it.
- A good puzzle game tests logic, reflexes and wit in the act of problem solving.
- The meat and potatoes of adventure games are puzzles and dialogue between characters.
- There are better puzzle games out there, that offer more absorbing and addictive bouts of rapid, simple fun.
- Also, several on-the-spot events like computer games and puzzles were conducted.
- Like a video game or a puzzle, it is a chance to think, learn and show off.
- The biggest factor that can make or break an adventure game is its puzzles.
- Ted uses lots of catchy songs, puzzles and word games to help the children have fun and learn while watching.
- Logic puzzles and strategy games represent another category of possible interest to the mathematically inclined.
- Basically, it would be the equivalent of solving a puzzle in a video game.
- The game was supposedly invented by a French count who was incarcerated in prison and is really a puzzle more than a game.
- There are some puzzles in the game, but nothing too brain taxing.
- The closest I've got is Venice Connection which is as much a puzzle as a game.
- Many of the game's platform puzzles require you to double-jump across vast chasms.
- The puzzle designs are very inspired and fit perfectly into the game.
- In fact, you'll be required to switch between the two to solve many of the game's puzzles.
- It includes one of the games only jumping puzzles.
- For example, the Saboteur mutator turns a solitaire puzzle into a three-player game.
- Much of the game's puzzle solving requires an equal amount of careful exploration and item manipulation.
1. 1.1 A jigsaw puzzle.
  a puzzle with 500 pieces
  figurative realization dawned as the pieces of the puzzle fell into place
  Example sentencesExamples
  The jig-saw puzzle of nation states in Africa, which defies geopolitical and economic logic, is simply the legacy of Europe's sharing out of Africa.
  It's not as though anything is actually is happening, yet pieces of the puzzle fall out of the box all the time.
  It was like the whole puzzle had fallen off the table.
  Is Sunda to Sahul a board game that looks like a puzzle or a puzzle with some board game elements?
  And of course, a truckload of educational toys, books, puzzles, games and music.
  I have mixed the pieces for all three puzzles together.
  It was Luke's face assaulting me with that tender ease, every touch and laugh like a puzzle piece falling into place.
  Another small piece of the puzzle fell into place for me.
  The child may then have problems with steps, climbing or with puzzles like jigsaws.
  They couldn't police a child's jig saw puzzle; probably because they haven't the wish to do so.
  There are also photographs, giant fungi, jig-saw puzzles, and lots of twinkle lights.
  She says the process has been like putting together a jig saw puzzle.
  As he finished speaking, several pieces of the puzzle fell together.
  The pieces of his memory fell together like a puzzle, as he mentally went through what had happened to him.
  On one side, the children tried their expertise in various games that ranged from puzzles to hitting the ‘bull's eye.’
  I guessed as the pieces of the puzzle fell into place.
  It seems similar in the way the pieces of the puzzle fall together.
  If it does, it might be one of the pieces of the jigsaw to these puzzles.
  We all blinked as that piece of the puzzle fell into place, and said a perfectly chorused, ‘Hello.’
  Well, I guess it's the way you put the puzzles pieces in the right places.
2A person or thing that is difficult to understand or explain; an enigma.
令人费解的人（或事）；难题；谜
the meaning of the poem has always been a puzzle
这首诗的含义一直是个谜。
Example sentencesExamples
- It looks as if pure puzzles really are what mystery readers like best.
- We can make these puzzles so difficult that it would take a champion six hours to complete one.
- James makes an interesting stab at trying to explain these puzzles.
- If Moylan was correct, this goes some way toward explaining the puzzle of the timing of McGee's assassination.
- Only the feel bad factor explains puzzles about the fuel protests.
- Your intellect and intelligence may have others constantly asking for your help with things that take a lot of thought or are difficult puzzles.
- There may yet be other solutions to this difficult puzzle.
- Even if that were true, however, it would not be a good reason to give up trying to understand the puzzle.
- What is left is the puzzle and the enigma that we need to figure out.
- While I cannot hope to resolve the puzzle, I can explain why I come to this conclusion.
- When a puzzle is not explainable through sound, rational argument then perforce we need to look at the less rational domain.
- The way the managers make sense of this puzzle is best explained in the different economic models for company performance.
- The Two Reconstructions explains a puzzle that lies at the heart of America's development as a political democracy.
- Well, there's something to this, but is there really a puzzle to explain?
- These puzzles are not difficult or complicated, they are simple and straightforward.
- It has always been a puzzle to me that a man so brilliant and personally kind can occasionally err in such judgments.
- Chechnya, a puzzle within this great unknown, is even less understood.
- I sat for a couple of years at the table of the Security Council and was exposed daily to real puzzles about exactly the question you ask.
- They remain enigmatic puzzles meant to be meditated on, in the same way that we consider a Magritte.
- Deciding which end is which has always been a puzzle, but now I know.
Synonyms
enigma, mystery, paradox, conundrum, poser, riddle, question, question mark, problem
informal stumper

Origin

Late 16th century (as a verb): of unknown origin.

The word puzzle is a puzzle. Some have suggested that it is derived from pose (see pause), just as nuzzle came from nose. Although pose did at one time mean ‘to perplex someone or put them at a loss’, the evidence for a connection between the two words is not strong and it is likely that they arose independently.

Rhymes

guzzle, muzzle, nuzzle

Definition of puzzle in US English:

puzzle

verbˈpəzəlˈpəzəl

[with object]

1Cause (someone) to feel confused because they cannot understand or make sense of something.
使迷惑；使为难，使窘困
one remark he made puzzled me
他说的一句话使我迷惑不解。
Example sentencesExamples
- This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural.
- It puzzles me why this is beyond Kerry's understanding.
- Her doctor is puzzled how she walked around with such a big gash without feeling a thing, and it is odd.
- The doctor was puzzled, for the disease must have taken hold long ago.
- Mention also needs to be made about one related aspect of the current education system that puzzles me.
- The people who puzzle him are those who don't read it and still hate it.
- I will take just a very quick call to sort out one or two things that are obviously puzzling people.
- I was puzzled that my doctor saw this as a cause for celebration but they are a breed apart.
- It puzzles me that a person starting up a business can't even afford a sign-writer.
- It just puzzles me why they didn't kill the Doctor when they had the chance.
- I am very puzzled why people with no helmets are stopped by police and these extremely noisy bikes have a free range.
- And here you have the explanation of that great riddle which used to puzzle people - evil and pain.
- It puzzles me why so many people seem so unwilling to understand this.
- I can understand why you are puzzled, and certainly there is a somewhat surprising explanation for this.
- For weeks it was a mystery which had puzzled the people of Bamford - an eagle owl perched on an electricity pylon.
- We were puzzled by your remark that you had the standard and there is no other design, so we did a little detective work.
- Both of these eccentricities puzzle people and often offend them. -
- Local people are puzzled by the find and were disgusted that anyone would dump carcasses in such a way.
- In other rich people news, we're still puzzled beyond belief by the whole McCartney story.
- Doctors were puzzled because the fungus was thought to be found only in mosquitoes and other insects.
Synonyms
puzzling, bewildering, perplexing, mystifying, bemusing, confusing, unclear, difficult to understand, hard to understand, beyond one, above one's head
perplexed, confused, bewildered, bemused, baffled, mystified, confounded, nonplussed, at a loss, at sea
difficult to understand, hard to understand, baffling, perplexing, mystifying, bewildering, confusing, complicated, unclear, beyond one, above one's head, mysterious, enigmatic, ambiguous, paradoxical, obscure, abstruse, unfathomable, inexplicable, incomprehensible, impenetrable, cryptic, oracular
perplex, confuse, bewilder, bemuse, baffle, mystify, confound, nonplus, throw, set someone thinking
1. 1.1no object Think hard about something difficult to understand or explain.
  （因迷惑而）苦思；冥思苦想
  she was still puzzling over this problem when she reached the office
  她来到办公室时还在思考这个问题。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yet they maintain just enough ambiguity so that the audience is left still puzzling over the piece afterwards.
  His mind flew from one wild idea to another as he tried to puzzle out the reason she was closeted in her room like that.
  There's a sinister tie-in with Social Security, too, that needs puzzling over.
  But that has not stopped some observers puzzling over why Kingdom should go public.
  All week I've been puzzling as to why there's been a heavy-duty garden sack neatly covering our washing basket.
  I just won't be spending a lot of time in the meantime puzzling over her identity.
  I puzzled for quite a long time over the sort of threshold that I thought might be most appropriate.
  Many happy hours can be spent puzzling over how to interpret this cheaply.
  Vivienne asked, puzzling over how his skin felt quite warm under her fingertips.
  John puzzled at the possible reasons for the break in speech, but decided that reason had very little to do with it.
  I can't sit puzzling over words when there are fresh-baked cakes to nibble.
  Statisticians are puzzling over some peculiar trends in vehicle sales.
  So next time you are puzzling over a piece of art, take more note of its context.
  I'm still puzzling over the film almost a week after seeing it and have no precedent as to whether this means I'll like it or not.
  Just as they are puzzling over the bizarre anomaly, something more shocking happens.
  In fact, critics around the world have been puzzling over how to classify Donnie Darko.
  Synonyms
  think hard about, give much thought to, rack one's brains about, mull over, muse over, ponder, brood about, contemplate, meditate on, consider, reflect on, deliberate on, chew over, turn over in one's mind, cogitate on, wonder about, ask oneself about
2. 1.2puzzle something out Solve or understand something by thinking hard.
  （通过苦苦思索）解决（或弄清楚），理出头绪
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was trying to puzzle things out when an orb of light came slowly down into the crevice.
  I shall not identify which daughter said which thing, leaving it as a task for the reader to puzzle it out.
  Which means that eight years after arriving in the valley, he's still puzzling things out.
  Tam was sitting up in her cage, trying to puzzle things out.
  I present it for folks who are better at puzzling their way out of things.
  I'm still trying to puzzle out how the Slayer's ersatz sister figures into everything.
  It'll irritate me, this will, until I've puzzled it out.
  There may have been some interesting birds hidden behind the flocks of Canada Geese and American Black Duck, but we were too cold to puzzle them out.
  And there's something I need to work on about forgiveness, to myself and others, but I haven't puzzled it out quite yet.
  If you can't use a dictionary to puzzle things out in a script, you are in trouble as an actor.
  Synonyms
  work out, understand, comprehend, think out, think through, sort out, reason out, solve, make sense of, get to the bottom of, make head or tail of, unravel, untangle, decipher, decode, find the key to, piece together

nounˈpəzəlˈpəzəl

1A game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge.
测验智力（或知识）的游戏（或玩具，问题）
Example sentencesExamples
- Ted uses lots of catchy songs, puzzles and word games to help the children have fun and learn while watching.
- Much of the game's puzzle solving requires an equal amount of careful exploration and item manipulation.
- The puzzle designs are very inspired and fit perfectly into the game.
- A good puzzle game tests logic, reflexes and wit in the act of problem solving.
- The biggest factor that can make or break an adventure game is its puzzles.
- Any puzzle, or solitaire game, can be turned into a multi-player game by making a contest out of solving it.
- Logic puzzles and strategy games represent another category of possible interest to the mathematically inclined.
- There are better puzzle games out there, that offer more absorbing and addictive bouts of rapid, simple fun.
- Also, several on-the-spot events like computer games and puzzles were conducted.
- Like a video game or a puzzle, it is a chance to think, learn and show off.
- The closest I've got is Venice Connection which is as much a puzzle as a game.
- Many of the game's platform puzzles require you to double-jump across vast chasms.
- It includes one of the games only jumping puzzles.
- The meat and potatoes of adventure games are puzzles and dialogue between characters.
- They will play games, solve puzzles, and ask questions like: Why can I remember baseball scores but forget where I put my keys?
- Basically, it would be the equivalent of solving a puzzle in a video game.
- For example, the Saboteur mutator turns a solitaire puzzle into a three-player game.
- In fact, you'll be required to switch between the two to solve many of the game's puzzles.
- There are some puzzles in the game, but nothing too brain taxing.
- The game was supposedly invented by a French count who was incarcerated in prison and is really a puzzle more than a game.
1. 1.1
  short for "jigsaw puzzle" (see jigsaw)
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are also photographs, giant fungi, jig-saw puzzles, and lots of twinkle lights.
  It was like the whole puzzle had fallen off the table.
  It's not as though anything is actually is happening, yet pieces of the puzzle fall out of the box all the time.
  I have mixed the pieces for all three puzzles together.
  The jig-saw puzzle of nation states in Africa, which defies geopolitical and economic logic, is simply the legacy of Europe's sharing out of Africa.
  Is Sunda to Sahul a board game that looks like a puzzle or a puzzle with some board game elements?
  As he finished speaking, several pieces of the puzzle fell together.
  I guessed as the pieces of the puzzle fell into place.
  Well, I guess it's the way you put the puzzles pieces in the right places.
  If it does, it might be one of the pieces of the jigsaw to these puzzles.
  She says the process has been like putting together a jig saw puzzle.
  The pieces of his memory fell together like a puzzle, as he mentally went through what had happened to him.
  Another small piece of the puzzle fell into place for me.
  The child may then have problems with steps, climbing or with puzzles like jigsaws.
  On one side, the children tried their expertise in various games that ranged from puzzles to hitting the ‘bull's eye.’
  And of course, a truckload of educational toys, books, puzzles, games and music.
  It seems similar in the way the pieces of the puzzle fall together.
  It was Luke's face assaulting me with that tender ease, every touch and laugh like a puzzle piece falling into place.
  We all blinked as that piece of the puzzle fell into place, and said a perfectly chorused, ‘Hello.’
  They couldn't police a child's jig saw puzzle; probably because they haven't the wish to do so.
2. 1.2usually in singular A person or thing that is difficult to understand or explain; an enigma.
  令人费解的人（或事）；难题；谜
  the meaning of the poem has always been a puzzle
  这首诗的含义一直是个谜。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Chechnya, a puzzle within this great unknown, is even less understood.
  Your intellect and intelligence may have others constantly asking for your help with things that take a lot of thought or are difficult puzzles.
  They remain enigmatic puzzles meant to be meditated on, in the same way that we consider a Magritte.
  When a puzzle is not explainable through sound, rational argument then perforce we need to look at the less rational domain.
  If Moylan was correct, this goes some way toward explaining the puzzle of the timing of McGee's assassination.
  Even if that were true, however, it would not be a good reason to give up trying to understand the puzzle.
  Deciding which end is which has always been a puzzle, but now I know.
  What is left is the puzzle and the enigma that we need to figure out.
  We can make these puzzles so difficult that it would take a champion six hours to complete one.
  While I cannot hope to resolve the puzzle, I can explain why I come to this conclusion.
  James makes an interesting stab at trying to explain these puzzles.
  Only the feel bad factor explains puzzles about the fuel protests.
  These puzzles are not difficult or complicated, they are simple and straightforward.
  I sat for a couple of years at the table of the Security Council and was exposed daily to real puzzles about exactly the question you ask.
  Well, there's something to this, but is there really a puzzle to explain?
  The way the managers make sense of this puzzle is best explained in the different economic models for company performance.
  The Two Reconstructions explains a puzzle that lies at the heart of America's development as a political democracy.
  It looks as if pure puzzles really are what mystery readers like best.
  There may yet be other solutions to this difficult puzzle.
  It has always been a puzzle to me that a man so brilliant and personally kind can occasionally err in such judgments.
  Synonyms
  enigma, mystery, paradox, conundrum, poser, riddle, question, question mark, problem

Origin

Late 16th century (as a verb): of unknown origin.

单词	puzzle
释义	Definition of puzzle in English: puzzle verb ˈpʌz(ə)lˈpəzəl [with object] 1Cause (someone) to feel confused because they cannot understand something. 使迷惑；使为难，使窘困 she was puzzled by the doctor's manner Example sentencesExamples It puzzles me why this is beyond Kerry's understanding. For weeks it was a mystery which had puzzled the people of Bamford - an eagle owl perched on an electricity pylon. I will take just a very quick call to sort out one or two things that are obviously puzzling people. It puzzles me why so many people seem so unwilling to understand this. The people who puzzle him are those who don't read it and still hate it. It puzzles me that a person starting up a business can't even afford a sign-writer. Her doctor is puzzled how she walked around with such a big gash without feeling a thing, and it is odd. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. Both of these eccentricities puzzle people and often offend them. - In other rich people news, we're still puzzled beyond belief by the whole McCartney story. I am very puzzled why people with no helmets are stopped by police and these extremely noisy bikes have a free range. And here you have the explanation of that great riddle which used to puzzle people - evil and pain. I was puzzled that my doctor saw this as a cause for celebration but they are a breed apart. The doctor was puzzled, for the disease must have taken hold long ago. I can understand why you are puzzled, and certainly there is a somewhat surprising explanation for this. Mention also needs to be made about one related aspect of the current education system that puzzles me. Local people are puzzled by the find and were disgusted that anyone would dump carcasses in such a way. It just puzzles me why they didn't kill the Doctor when they had the chance. Doctors were puzzled because the fungus was thought to be found only in mosquitoes and other insects. We were puzzled by your remark that you had the standard and there is no other design, so we did a little detective work. Synonyms perplex, confuse, bewilder, bemuse, baffle, mystify, confound, nonplus, throw, set someone thinking informal flummox, discombobulate, faze, stump, beat, make someone scratch their head, fog archaic wilder, gravel, maze, pose rare obfuscate perplexed, confused, bewildered, bemused, baffled, mystified, confounded, nonplussed, at a loss, at sea informal flummoxed, discombobulated, stumped, fazed, clueless, without a clue Canadian &amp Australian/New Zealand informal bushed archaic wildered, gravelled, mazed 1.1no object Think hard about something because one cannot understand it. （因迷惑而）苦思；冥思苦想 she was still puzzling over this problem when she reached the office 她来到办公室时还在思考这个问题。 Example sentencesExamples There's a sinister tie-in with Social Security, too, that needs puzzling over. Yet they maintain just enough ambiguity so that the audience is left still puzzling over the piece afterwards. I'm still puzzling over the film almost a week after seeing it and have no precedent as to whether this means I'll like it or not. All week I've been puzzling as to why there's been a heavy-duty garden sack neatly covering our washing basket. But that has not stopped some observers puzzling over why Kingdom should go public. Many happy hours can be spent puzzling over how to interpret this cheaply. Statisticians are puzzling over some peculiar trends in vehicle sales. Vivienne asked, puzzling over how his skin felt quite warm under her fingertips. In fact, critics around the world have been puzzling over how to classify Donnie Darko. John puzzled at the possible reasons for the break in speech, but decided that reason had very little to do with it. I can't sit puzzling over words when there are fresh-baked cakes to nibble. His mind flew from one wild idea to another as he tried to puzzle out the reason she was closeted in her room like that. Just as they are puzzling over the bizarre anomaly, something more shocking happens. I puzzled for quite a long time over the sort of threshold that I thought might be most appropriate. So next time you are puzzling over a piece of art, take more note of its context. I just won't be spending a lot of time in the meantime puzzling over her identity. Synonyms think hard about, give much thought to, rack one's brains about, mull over, muse over, ponder, brood about, contemplate, meditate on, consider, reflect on, deliberate on, chew over, turn over in one's mind, cogitate on, wonder about, ask oneself about archaic pore on 1.2puzzle something out Solve or understand something by thinking hard. （通过苦苦思索）解决（或弄清楚），理出头绪 she was trying to puzzle out who the speakers were Example sentencesExamples I present it for folks who are better at puzzling their way out of things. And there's something I need to work on about forgiveness, to myself and others, but I haven't puzzled it out quite yet. He was trying to puzzle things out when an orb of light came slowly down into the crevice. If you can't use a dictionary to puzzle things out in a script, you are in trouble as an actor. I'm still trying to puzzle out how the Slayer's ersatz sister figures into everything. I shall not identify which daughter said which thing, leaving it as a task for the reader to puzzle it out. Tam was sitting up in her cage, trying to puzzle things out. It'll irritate me, this will, until I've puzzled it out. There may have been some interesting birds hidden behind the flocks of Canada Geese and American Black Duck, but we were too cold to puzzle them out. Which means that eight years after arriving in the valley, he's still puzzling things out. Synonyms work out, understand, comprehend, think out, think through, sort out, reason out, solve, make sense of, get to the bottom of, make head or tail of, unravel, untangle, decipher, decode, find the key to, piece together informal figure out, suss out, crack noun ˈpʌz(ə)lˈpəzəl 1A game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge. 测验智力（或知识）的游戏（或玩具，问题） those who solve this puzzle in the shortest time are eligible for awards a book with picture puzzles Example sentencesExamples They will play games, solve puzzles, and ask questions like: Why can I remember baseball scores but forget where I put my keys? Any puzzle, or solitaire game, can be turned into a multi-player game by making a contest out of solving it. A good puzzle game tests logic, reflexes and wit in the act of problem solving. The meat and potatoes of adventure games are puzzles and dialogue between characters. There are better puzzle games out there, that offer more absorbing and addictive bouts of rapid, simple fun. Also, several on-the-spot events like computer games and puzzles were conducted. Like a video game or a puzzle, it is a chance to think, learn and show off. The biggest factor that can make or break an adventure game is its puzzles. Ted uses lots of catchy songs, puzzles and word games to help the children have fun and learn while watching. Logic puzzles and strategy games represent another category of possible interest to the mathematically inclined. Basically, it would be the equivalent of solving a puzzle in a video game. The game was supposedly invented by a French count who was incarcerated in prison and is really a puzzle more than a game. There are some puzzles in the game, but nothing too brain taxing. The closest I've got is Venice Connection which is as much a puzzle as a game. Many of the game's platform puzzles require you to double-jump across vast chasms. The puzzle designs are very inspired and fit perfectly into the game. In fact, you'll be required to switch between the two to solve many of the game's puzzles. It includes one of the games only jumping puzzles. For example, the Saboteur mutator turns a solitaire puzzle into a three-player game. Much of the game's puzzle solving requires an equal amount of careful exploration and item manipulation. 1.1 A jigsaw puzzle. a puzzle with 500 pieces figurative realization dawned as the pieces of the puzzle fell into place Example sentencesExamples The jig-saw puzzle of nation states in Africa, which defies geopolitical and economic logic, is simply the legacy of Europe's sharing out of Africa. It's not as though anything is actually is happening, yet pieces of the puzzle fall out of the box all the time. It was like the whole puzzle had fallen off the table. Is Sunda to Sahul a board game that looks like a puzzle or a puzzle with some board game elements? And of course, a truckload of educational toys, books, puzzles, games and music. I have mixed the pieces for all three puzzles together. It was Luke's face assaulting me with that tender ease, every touch and laugh like a puzzle piece falling into place. Another small piece of the puzzle fell into place for me. The child may then have problems with steps, climbing or with puzzles like jigsaws. They couldn't police a child's jig saw puzzle; probably because they haven't the wish to do so. There are also photographs, giant fungi, jig-saw puzzles, and lots of twinkle lights. She says the process has been like putting together a jig saw puzzle. As he finished speaking, several pieces of the puzzle fell together. The pieces of his memory fell together like a puzzle, as he mentally went through what had happened to him. On one side, the children tried their expertise in various games that ranged from puzzles to hitting the ‘bull's eye.’ I guessed as the pieces of the puzzle fell into place. It seems similar in the way the pieces of the puzzle fall together. If it does, it might be one of the pieces of the jigsaw to these puzzles. We all blinked as that piece of the puzzle fell into place, and said a perfectly chorused, ‘Hello.’ Well, I guess it's the way you put the puzzles pieces in the right places. 2A person or thing that is difficult to understand or explain; an enigma. 令人费解的人（或事）；难题；谜 the meaning of the poem has always been a puzzle 这首诗的含义一直是个谜。 Example sentencesExamples It looks as if pure puzzles really are what mystery readers like best. We can make these puzzles so difficult that it would take a champion six hours to complete one. James makes an interesting stab at trying to explain these puzzles. If Moylan was correct, this goes some way toward explaining the puzzle of the timing of McGee's assassination. Only the feel bad factor explains puzzles about the fuel protests. Your intellect and intelligence may have others constantly asking for your help with things that take a lot of thought or are difficult puzzles. There may yet be other solutions to this difficult puzzle. Even if that were true, however, it would not be a good reason to give up trying to understand the puzzle. What is left is the puzzle and the enigma that we need to figure out. While I cannot hope to resolve the puzzle, I can explain why I come to this conclusion. When a puzzle is not explainable through sound, rational argument then perforce we need to look at the less rational domain. The way the managers make sense of this puzzle is best explained in the different economic models for company performance. The Two Reconstructions explains a puzzle that lies at the heart of America's development as a political democracy. Well, there's something to this, but is there really a puzzle to explain? These puzzles are not difficult or complicated, they are simple and straightforward. It has always been a puzzle to me that a man so brilliant and personally kind can occasionally err in such judgments. Chechnya, a puzzle within this great unknown, is even less understood. I sat for a couple of years at the table of the Security Council and was exposed daily to real puzzles about exactly the question you ask. They remain enigmatic puzzles meant to be meditated on, in the same way that we consider a Magritte. Deciding which end is which has always been a puzzle, but now I know. Synonyms enigma, mystery, paradox, conundrum, poser, riddle, question, question mark, problem informal stumper Origin Late 16th century (as a verb): of unknown origin. The word puzzle is a puzzle. Some have suggested that it is derived from pose (see pause), just as nuzzle came from nose. Although pose did at one time mean ‘to perplex someone or put them at a loss’, the evidence for a connection between the two words is not strong and it is likely that they arose independently. Rhymes guzzle, muzzle, nuzzle Definition of puzzle in US English: puzzle verbˈpəzəlˈpəzəl [with object] 1Cause (someone) to feel confused because they cannot understand or make sense of something. 使迷惑；使为难，使窘困 one remark he made puzzled me 他说的一句话使我迷惑不解。 Example sentencesExamples This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. It puzzles me why this is beyond Kerry's understanding. Her doctor is puzzled how she walked around with such a big gash without feeling a thing, and it is odd. The doctor was puzzled, for the disease must have taken hold long ago. Mention also needs to be made about one related aspect of the current education system that puzzles me. The people who puzzle him are those who don't read it and still hate it. I will take just a very quick call to sort out one or two things that are obviously puzzling people. I was puzzled that my doctor saw this as a cause for celebration but they are a breed apart. It puzzles me that a person starting up a business can't even afford a sign-writer. It just puzzles me why they didn't kill the Doctor when they had the chance. I am very puzzled why people with no helmets are stopped by police and these extremely noisy bikes have a free range. And here you have the explanation of that great riddle which used to puzzle people - evil and pain. It puzzles me why so many people seem so unwilling to understand this. I can understand why you are puzzled, and certainly there is a somewhat surprising explanation for this. For weeks it was a mystery which had puzzled the people of Bamford - an eagle owl perched on an electricity pylon. We were puzzled by your remark that you had the standard and there is no other design, so we did a little detective work. Both of these eccentricities puzzle people and often offend them. - Local people are puzzled by the find and were disgusted that anyone would dump carcasses in such a way. In other rich people news, we're still puzzled beyond belief by the whole McCartney story. Doctors were puzzled because the fungus was thought to be found only in mosquitoes and other insects. Synonyms puzzling, bewildering, perplexing, mystifying, bemusing, confusing, unclear, difficult to understand, hard to understand, beyond one, above one's head perplexed, confused, bewildered, bemused, baffled, mystified, confounded, nonplussed, at a loss, at sea difficult to understand, hard to understand, baffling, perplexing, mystifying, bewildering, confusing, complicated, unclear, beyond one, above one's head, mysterious, enigmatic, ambiguous, paradoxical, obscure, abstruse, unfathomable, inexplicable, incomprehensible, impenetrable, cryptic, oracular perplex, confuse, bewilder, bemuse, baffle, mystify, confound, nonplus, throw, set someone thinking 1.1no object Think hard about something difficult to understand or explain. （因迷惑而）苦思；冥思苦想 she was still puzzling over this problem when she reached the office 她来到办公室时还在思考这个问题。 Example sentencesExamples Yet they maintain just enough ambiguity so that the audience is left still puzzling over the piece afterwards. His mind flew from one wild idea to another as he tried to puzzle out the reason she was closeted in her room like that. There's a sinister tie-in with Social Security, too, that needs puzzling over. But that has not stopped some observers puzzling over why Kingdom should go public. All week I've been puzzling as to why there's been a heavy-duty garden sack neatly covering our washing basket. I just won't be spending a lot of time in the meantime puzzling over her identity. I puzzled for quite a long time over the sort of threshold that I thought might be most appropriate. Many happy hours can be spent puzzling over how to interpret this cheaply. Vivienne asked, puzzling over how his skin felt quite warm under her fingertips. John puzzled at the possible reasons for the break in speech, but decided that reason had very little to do with it. I can't sit puzzling over words when there are fresh-baked cakes to nibble. Statisticians are puzzling over some peculiar trends in vehicle sales. So next time you are puzzling over a piece of art, take more note of its context. I'm still puzzling over the film almost a week after seeing it and have no precedent as to whether this means I'll like it or not. Just as they are puzzling over the bizarre anomaly, something more shocking happens. In fact, critics around the world have been puzzling over how to classify Donnie Darko. Synonyms think hard about, give much thought to, rack one's brains about, mull over, muse over, ponder, brood about, contemplate, meditate on, consider, reflect on, deliberate on, chew over, turn over in one's mind, cogitate on, wonder about, ask oneself about 1.2puzzle something out Solve or understand something by thinking hard. （通过苦苦思索）解决（或弄清楚），理出头绪 Example sentencesExamples He was trying to puzzle things out when an orb of light came slowly down into the crevice. I shall not identify which daughter said which thing, leaving it as a task for the reader to puzzle it out. Which means that eight years after arriving in the valley, he's still puzzling things out. Tam was sitting up in her cage, trying to puzzle things out. I present it for folks who are better at puzzling their way out of things. I'm still trying to puzzle out how the Slayer's ersatz sister figures into everything. It'll irritate me, this will, until I've puzzled it out. There may have been some interesting birds hidden behind the flocks of Canada Geese and American Black Duck, but we were too cold to puzzle them out. And there's something I need to work on about forgiveness, to myself and others, but I haven't puzzled it out quite yet. If you can't use a dictionary to puzzle things out in a script, you are in trouble as an actor. Synonyms work out, understand, comprehend, think out, think through, sort out, reason out, solve, make sense of, get to the bottom of, make head or tail of, unravel, untangle, decipher, decode, find the key to, piece together nounˈpəzəlˈpəzəl 1A game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge. 测验智力（或知识）的游戏（或玩具，问题） Example sentencesExamples Ted uses lots of catchy songs, puzzles and word games to help the children have fun and learn while watching. Much of the game's puzzle solving requires an equal amount of careful exploration and item manipulation. The puzzle designs are very inspired and fit perfectly into the game. A good puzzle game tests logic, reflexes and wit in the act of problem solving. The biggest factor that can make or break an adventure game is its puzzles. Any puzzle, or solitaire game, can be turned into a multi-player game by making a contest out of solving it. Logic puzzles and strategy games represent another category of possible interest to the mathematically inclined. There are better puzzle games out there, that offer more absorbing and addictive bouts of rapid, simple fun. Also, several on-the-spot events like computer games and puzzles were conducted. Like a video game or a puzzle, it is a chance to think, learn and show off. The closest I've got is Venice Connection which is as much a puzzle as a game. Many of the game's platform puzzles require you to double-jump across vast chasms. It includes one of the games only jumping puzzles. The meat and potatoes of adventure games are puzzles and dialogue between characters. They will play games, solve puzzles, and ask questions like: Why can I remember baseball scores but forget where I put my keys? Basically, it would be the equivalent of solving a puzzle in a video game. For example, the Saboteur mutator turns a solitaire puzzle into a three-player game. In fact, you'll be required to switch between the two to solve many of the game's puzzles. There are some puzzles in the game, but nothing too brain taxing. The game was supposedly invented by a French count who was incarcerated in prison and is really a puzzle more than a game. 1.1 short for "jigsaw puzzle" (see jigsaw) Example sentencesExamples There are also photographs, giant fungi, jig-saw puzzles, and lots of twinkle lights. It was like the whole puzzle had fallen off the table. It's not as though anything is actually is happening, yet pieces of the puzzle fall out of the box all the time. I have mixed the pieces for all three puzzles together. The jig-saw puzzle of nation states in Africa, which defies geopolitical and economic logic, is simply the legacy of Europe's sharing out of Africa. Is Sunda to Sahul a board game that looks like a puzzle or a puzzle with some board game elements? As he finished speaking, several pieces of the puzzle fell together. I guessed as the pieces of the puzzle fell into place. Well, I guess it's the way you put the puzzles pieces in the right places. If it does, it might be one of the pieces of the jigsaw to these puzzles. She says the process has been like putting together a jig saw puzzle. The pieces of his memory fell together like a puzzle, as he mentally went through what had happened to him. Another small piece of the puzzle fell into place for me. The child may then have problems with steps, climbing or with puzzles like jigsaws. On one side, the children tried their expertise in various games that ranged from puzzles to hitting the ‘bull's eye.’ And of course, a truckload of educational toys, books, puzzles, games and music. It seems similar in the way the pieces of the puzzle fall together. It was Luke's face assaulting me with that tender ease, every touch and laugh like a puzzle piece falling into place. We all blinked as that piece of the puzzle fell into place, and said a perfectly chorused, ‘Hello.’ They couldn't police a child's jig saw puzzle; probably because they haven't the wish to do so. 1.2usually in singular A person or thing that is difficult to understand or explain; an enigma. 令人费解的人（或事）；难题；谜 the meaning of the poem has always been a puzzle 这首诗的含义一直是个谜。 Example sentencesExamples Chechnya, a puzzle within this great unknown, is even less understood. Your intellect and intelligence may have others constantly asking for your help with things that take a lot of thought or are difficult puzzles. They remain enigmatic puzzles meant to be meditated on, in the same way that we consider a Magritte. When a puzzle is not explainable through sound, rational argument then perforce we need to look at the less rational domain. If Moylan was correct, this goes some way toward explaining the puzzle of the timing of McGee's assassination. Even if that were true, however, it would not be a good reason to give up trying to understand the puzzle. Deciding which end is which has always been a puzzle, but now I know. What is left is the puzzle and the enigma that we need to figure out. We can make these puzzles so difficult that it would take a champion six hours to complete one. While I cannot hope to resolve the puzzle, I can explain why I come to this conclusion. James makes an interesting stab at trying to explain these puzzles. Only the feel bad factor explains puzzles about the fuel protests. These puzzles are not difficult or complicated, they are simple and straightforward. I sat for a couple of years at the table of the Security Council and was exposed daily to real puzzles about exactly the question you ask. Well, there's something to this, but is there really a puzzle to explain? The way the managers make sense of this puzzle is best explained in the different economic models for company performance. The Two Reconstructions explains a puzzle that lies at the heart of America's development as a political democracy. It looks as if pure puzzles really are what mystery readers like best. There may yet be other solutions to this difficult puzzle. It has always been a puzzle to me that a man so brilliant and personally kind can occasionally err in such judgments. Synonyms enigma, mystery, paradox, conundrum, poser, riddle, question, question mark, problem Origin Late 16th century (as a verb): of unknown origin.
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