rid·dle

noun

/ˈrɪdl/

a question that is difficult to understand, and that has a surprising answer, that you ask somebody as a game谜；谜语
- Stop talking in riddles (= saying things that are confusing)—say what you mean.别拐弯抹角了，有话直说。
- Bilbo solves the riddle that unlocks the door to the mountain.比尔博破解了打开通往大山之门的暗语。
Topics Games and toysc1
a mysterious event or situation that you cannot explain神秘事件；无法解释的情况 synonym mystery
- the riddle of how the baby died婴儿死亡之谜
- The riddle of his identity was only solved when his brother saw him on TV.当他的哥哥在电视上看到他时，他的身份之谜才被解开。

Word Originnoun Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse ‘opinion, conjecture, riddle’; related to Dutch raadsel, German Rätsel, also to read.

verb

/ˈrɪdl/

[usually passive]

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they riddle	/ˈrɪdl/ /ˈrɪdl/
he / she / it riddles	/ˈrɪdlz/ /ˈrɪdlz/
past simple riddled	/ˈrɪdld/ /ˈrɪdld/
past participle riddled	/ˈrɪdld/ /ˈrɪdld/
-ing form riddling	/ˈrɪdlɪŋ/ /ˈrɪdlɪŋ/

Idioms

riddle somebody/something (with something) to make a lot of holes in somebody/something使布满窟窿
- The car was riddled with bullets.这辆车被子弹打得千疮百孔。
- a bullet-riddled car布满弹坑的汽车
Word Originverb late Old English hriddel, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cribrum ‘sieve’, cernere ‘separate’, and Greek krinein ‘decide’.

Idioms

be riddled with something

to be full of something, especially something bad or unpleasant充满；充斥
- His body was riddled with cancer.恶性肿瘤遍布他的全身。
- Her typing was slow and riddled with mistakes.她打字很慢而且错误百出。
- The woods are riddled with rabbit holes.树林里布满了兔子洞。