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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additions and betterments
adjacent shell
agamospecies (turesson 1929)apomictic species
agrifood
appointment of counsel
arylarsonic acid
astrogeodetic theodolite
asymmetry angle
axewomen
ballatry
beefing
biometal
bioone
Brachypsectridae
butterfish
cable echo
cachaa
channel specific-enthalpy rise
chart layout
check gage (reference gage)
communicate to
contact diffusion
count method
countermotions
cuntline
cypritic steel
Davis graft
days sales outstanding ratio
Delan
delirium convergens
demagnetizer
depth of drainage ditch
devel.
dinoceratan
direct cache address mapping
double strength pipe
East Angle
employee status
endosity
endothia parasitica (murr.)p.j.et. h.w.anderson
ezer
fastfood
fine crystal
flexible idler
freeze etch replica
genus zygocactuss
geometric proportion
grandparenthoods
greiter
gunruns
heavy assault weapon
heer
horrigan
hyalescent
hypo-chondria
incombustibly
indanone
insulars
Jeffrey City
Jewfro
knotter drive gear
loop loss
low blower
lucicutia polaris
maneuvering post
Maraa
may-
mechanical air separation
MEGF
metadimensions
mocha
monthly total of entries
neuroethicss
oxypolymerization
paid into
pegaspargase
Pentedrin
phase sequence
plexus rectalis caudalis
pseudo-equilibrium state
pusher grade
radial runout of peripheral cutting edge
raised piece
ratio modulation
reciprocity of benefits
Red Armyman
renin-angiotensin-aldosterone
right-handed en echelon folding
Rothene
side ram
sock something away
subject to availability of cargo
Tayëzhnyy
toll network
top-stitched seam
triclinic hemi-prism
Twaddle gravity scale
uhf/df (ultra-high-frequency direction finding)
VFGS (variable frequency generating set)
vulvouterine
zig-a-zig-ah