音标:['bæf(ə)lɪŋ] ;
adj. 令人困惑的;阻碍的;令人丧气的;变幻的
v. 使困惑;挫败(baffle的ing形式)

He went to the visitors' center in the nearby library. He spoke to a young woman. I can't figure that sculpture out. What is it a sculpture of? he asked. You're not the first person to ask about that sculpture. It's called 'Bellerophon Taming Pegasus

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He took the No. 1 train to Columbia University. He explored the campus. There were many sculptures. The sculpture at Greene Hall was massive. The sculpture was about 10 yards high and wide. It sat on top of the entranceway roof. The roof was about 12

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baffle, ['bfl] v 使困惑,使为难(用混淆的方法迷惑或阻止某人作某事)=confuse=puzzle=confound=balk=bilk=dash=foil=thwart 【例】This puzzle baffles me 这个谜使我困惑。We succeeded in baffling the enemy

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1. Heavy rain and hail force the cancellation of some relief flights to earthquake-stricken regions in Pakistan as survivors scuffle over badly needed food. 2. President Bush says lots of work remains

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 24 May 2008 The violence against foreigners in South Africa is being monitored closely in Nigeria. Several thousand Nigerians live in South Africa, and some of them have been targeted in the recent violence against foreigner

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Perhaps she really is a time-traveller, sent back through the decades to make a jaw-dropping cameo appearance. Or maybe she was a maverick genius, secretly testing out advanced technology for the government and caught on camera at the wrong moment。

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A new cafe in Germany has become a social media star as everything is upside down. 德国一家新开的咖啡馆因为所有东西都是颠倒的而走红社交媒体。 The Toppels' roadside cafe in Wertheim opened earlier this year and it was an i

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The UKs Business Secretary Wins an Embarrassing Award 英国商务大臣获一尴尬奖项 When did you last look around a corner? Did you do it thoroughly? If you think that question is a little odd, youre not alone. Every year the Plain English Cam

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alkali matrix deposit
ammonium iodate
antique-copper iron square hinge loose pin
attaching parts
bateer
be in the red
bogie-type furnace
Briones Reservoir
Bulbophyllum caudatum
cannery trimmings
chronoanemoisothermal diagram
cleat in coal
climbing vine
cluster count
counterpulsation therapy
cycloidal gear teeth
decelerating premium bonus
double-float conversion
droite
dropka
electrocauterize
endemic poisoning
endolympha
envoy extraordinaries
etching powder
expansion scab
external lock signal
fore and aft bridge
gavottes
GM_most-the-most-mostly
go place
grohol
hippocampal sulcus (or hippocampal fissure)
indenedione
interlanguages
jellyfish baby
Kasaka
kickshaws
Kiwiland
kummelweck
lemonile
line staff
lych
make ... way to
marine sewage treatment plant
mid-gut
misoccupy
more-than-life
mortified
mRNA
Nergandin
new plant and equipment expenditures
nitzschia angularis
nontimbered
oil share
operational safety evaluation
P2-purinoceptors
palmierite
panduriform
paper fasteners
partword
pelatan furnace
pepe grid
photospheric surface
Pirón, R.
plane-table resection
post-modernists
previous crime
pupa solidula
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rapid store
red-ochre
resolutionists
right to buildingtimber
rock series
roller-hearth kiln
row-select
Saussurea cauloptera
Sclater
self exciting condition
selliguea rhynchophylla
simulated bombing mission
single-stage pump-turbine
smart ticket
stiff gentians
syndrome of phlegm-heat accumulated in chest
system unit
Sātāria
tank top plate
tdm transmission
tendon tunnelling forceps
trans-configuration
transistor-resistor logic
Transnistrian
underclaim
unemotioned
unionisms
value orientation
vibrating chute
volksopers
xenon accumulation