baffle

英語編輯

其他形式編輯

bafful, baffol (均已棄用)

詞源編輯

不詳。可能與法語 bafouer (「藐視」)或已棄用的法語 befer (「嘲笑」)有關，^[1]經由蘇格蘭語bauchle (「羞辱」)。^[2]

發音編輯

國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈbæfl̩/
斷字：baf‧fle
（美國）音頻（文檔）
韻部：-æfəl

動詞編輯

baffle (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 baffles，現在分詞 baffling，一般過去時及過去分詞 baffled)

使...困惑，使...不解，迷惑（自17世紀）
近義詞：參見Thesaurus:confuse

I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.
指示里的自相矛盾和疏漏讓我一頭霧水。
- Template:RQ:Prescott Mexico
- Template:RQ:Locke Conduct
(不及物) 無謂地掙扎（19世紀）
A ship baffles with the winds.
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(now罕用) 制止，阻止，挫敗（自17世紀）
- 1798, William Cowper, On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture:
  the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim
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- Template:RQ:South Twelve Sermons
- 1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra:
  It may have been the failure of Christianity to emancipate itself from expiatory theories of moral responsibility, guilt, innocence, reward, punishment, and the rest of it, that baffled its intention of changing the world.
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- 1915, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales:
  So they had to search the world again for a sphinx. And still there was none. But they were not men that it is easy to baffle, and at last they found a sphinx in a desert at evening watching a ruined temple whose gods she had eaten hundreds of years ago when her hunger was on her.
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(棄用) 當眾羞辱（尤指騎士）（16-17世紀）
- 1596, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, 「Book VI, Canto VII」, 出自仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]）, London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  He by the heeles him hung upon a tree, / And baffuld so, that all which passed by / The picture of his punishment might see […].
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(棄用) 欺騙（16-18世紀）
近義詞： hoodwink、deceive
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, 「(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Duty of Prayer」, 出自 The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], 卷s (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], 出版於 1830–1831, →OCLC:
  pretences to baffle with his goodness
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衍生詞彙編輯

詞語搭配編輯

(困惑)：

to be baffled as to why/how (something happened) ― 不知道某事為何發生

名詞編輯

baffle (複數 baffles)

（聲音、光、液體等的）反射板，擋板
科西嘉語

Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.
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（困惑敵人用的）障壁
(美國，方言，coal mining) 卷揚機的節流閥控制杆