conundrum
美 [kəˈnʌndrəm]
英 [kə'nʌndrəm] 
- n.令人迷惑的难题;复杂难解的问题;谜语
- 网络谜题;复杂难题;谜团
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复数:conundrums 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 令人迷惑的难题;复杂难解的问题a confusing problem or question that is very difficult to solve |
2. | 谜语a question, usually involving a trick with words, that you ask for fun |
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Not buying clothes would seem to break the fundamental law of fashion, but happily there is a stylish way around the conundrum.
不买衣服,这看起来好像打破了时尚大法,但是幸运地是,采用一种时尚的方式就可以解决这个难题。
This apparent conundrum, Ahmed explains, is the result of a combination of radical ideology and vast amounts of money.
这个显而易见的难题,在Ahmed看来,是因为激进的意识形态和巨额资金综合作用的结果。
This seems to be a real conundrum, even for Austrians and other libertarians.
这看起来确实是一个谜团,特别是对于包括奥地利学派在内的自由主义者来说。
Trying to solve the conundrum of Israel and Palestine was by far the biggest burden of his years on the throne.
侯赛因统治至今最大得负担就是努力解决以色列与巴勒斯坦的难题。
But it took a Hungarian politician to turn a logical conundrum into a political strategy.
不过这句话却让一位匈牙利政治家把一句逻辑难题变成了一个政治策略。
How life had first made proteins without enzymes, which presumably had to be proteins themselves, had been a chicken-and-egg conundrum.
生命最初如何在没有酶(可能是蛋白质本身)的情况下合成蛋白质?这是个鸡与蛋谁先产生的难题。
The electric vehicle's range is a conundrum that the best brains are still trying to unravel.
电动汽车的行驶里程仍然是一个让人大伤脑筋的问题,尚需诸多业内精英努力解决。
Economists said the surge in inflation also presented Asian central bankers with a conundrum that went against their instincts.
经济学家表示,通胀飙升还给亚洲各国央行官员带来了一个与其本能相悖的难题。
The birth of our genus has long been a conundrum for paleoanthropologists, to say the least.
至少可以说,长期以来,人类的诞生对古人类学家来说一直是一道谜。
It's been a bit of a conundrum for astrophysicists.
对天体物理学家们来说,这是一个难题。
The chairman of the Fed, Alan Greenspan, told Congress in February 2005 that this was a "conundrum" .
时任联储局主席格林斯潘在2005年2月向国会表示这是一个“棘手难题”。
However, for China the least problematic solution to its oil conundrum is to look directly west.
然而,对于中国来说,解决其能源难题最简单易行的方法是向“西”看。
It's an important step in uncovering the exact length of a Saturnian day, a conundrum that has perplexed planetary researchers for years.
此项发现对于定义土星确切时长,这一困扰行星科学研究者们长达数年的难题具有重要意义。
Many would assert that this tickling conundrum is the perfect evidence that humor is utterly relative.
许多人会认为发痒的秘密很好地证明了幽默是具有强烈的相对性的。
For a nation with daunting labour-absorption imperatives, labour-saving growth presents China with a major conundrum.
对于一个迫切需要消化劳动力的国家,劳动节约型的增长给中国呈现了一个巨大的难题。
This year, Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, referred to the low level of bond yields as a "conundrum" .
今年,美联储主席艾伦·格林斯潘(AlanGreenspan)将低水平的债券收益率称为一个“谜团”(conundrum)。
The bigger conundrum is that, just as the banks appear to have suddenly found religion, consumers also are unhelpfully doing the same.
更大的难题是,正如银行似乎突然也严谨起来了一样,消费者也同样谨慎起来。
But offering Utah another seat (which it could lose after the next census) does not resolve the constitutional conundrum.
但赋予犹他州一个议席(该议席可能在下次人口调查后被丢掉)并不能解决宪法上的困局。
Manywould assert that this tickling conundrum is the perfect evidence that humor is utterly relative.
许多人声称这一胳肢谜题正是幽默是完全相对的完美证据。
This conundrum is not a new one for Judge Rakoff and one he raised in an SEC settlement case two years ago involving Bank of America (BAC).
这样有悖常理的事情拉科夫法官可不是头一遭碰上了,两年前美国银行(BankofAmerica)的SEC和解案也是这样。
The conundrum is that his buildup in Afghanistan is supported more strongly by Republicans than by his own party.
目前的难题就是,共和党对于增兵阿富汗的支持,甚至超过他自己党派的支持。
A better approach might be to free its currency a bit, slow its accumulation of reserves and thus avoid the conundrum of how to invest them.
略微放松人民币的管制、放慢储备积累以避免不知如何投资的难题可能是个更好的方法。
One conundrum for investors is how more aggressive tightening would play out in the currency markets.
投资者需要解答的一个问题,是货币政策加大收紧力度将如何在外汇市场呈现。
He was unaccountably pleased to have found the answer to his conundrum so quickly .
这么迅速就找到这个难题的答案,他莫明其妙地高兴起来。
The conundrum With the working personnel with strong accent, communication is going to clear urine.
跟带有浓厚口音地工作人员交流了半天,才弄分明是要去尿检。
I'll just leave you with a little conundrum because that's philosophical logic we're not doing that here, we are doing symbolic logic here.
我会给你们一些难题因为,我们在做哲学逻辑,我们在做符号逻辑。
If Saudi Arabia remains such a conundrum, the Saudis themselves are partly to blame.
如果沙特阿拉伯一直陷于这样的进退维谷之中,沙特阿拉伯人本身就该承担部分责任。
He wrote without state patronage and this is why he poses such a conundrum to his country today.
他并非是在政府的授意下著作,这就是为什么他给今天他的国家摆出了一道难题。
So far, political attempts to resolve this conundrum have been unforgivably muddled.
迄今,旨在解决这一政治谜团的政治努力,混乱得令人难以原谅。
In particular, Step 6 of the above framework re-creates the original records, but it has lost the column names, which poses a conundrum.
特别是,第6步的上述框架re-creates原始记录,但它失去了列名称,这带来了一个难题。
Nobody will be condemned by accident or because they didn't manage to figure out a highly complex riddle, or any other conundrum.
没人会被谴责发生的事故或者任何其他难题因为他们没能解决一个非常复杂的谜团。
The sliding dollar has presented custodians of the world's massive foreign exchange reserves with a conundrum.
美元不断下跌,给全球拥有庞大外汇储备的国家出了一道难题。
These experiments may really head scientists in the right direction for figuring out the antimatter-matter conundrum, Charlton said.
查尔顿说,这些实验可能真的会引导科学家朝着正确的方向去解决反物质的这个难题。
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system?
任何有理智的人都无法解释我们的税收和法律体制中那个累赘低效的巨大难题。
However, consumerization presents a conundrum to the traditional corporate technology department.
但是,对于传统的公司技术部门来说,消费化是一个捉摸不透的命题。
But what's most interesting to me isn't that The Innovator's Dilemma was on that list. It's that Jobs solved the conundrum.
但是最令我感兴趣的不是《创新者困境》这本书在乔布斯的书单上榜上有名,而是乔布斯解决了这个问题。
The outlook contains excitement, passion and pleasure plus a surprising solution to a current conundrum.
未来是充满兴奋、激情和快乐旳,它将出其不意地带给你目前谜题旳回答。
One answer to this conundrum could be that businesses in America and Europe no longer need to invest as much as they used to.
这个问题的答案之一可能是欧美企业不再象过去那样要把那么多的资本投出去。
Chickens come from eggs But have legs. The plot thickens; Eggs come from chickens, But have no legs under'em What a conundrum!
让我们想想蛋,它们没有腿。鸡来自蛋,却有腿。情节变得复杂;蛋来自鸡,但下面却没有腿。这真是一个迷!
Indeed, Google's advantages are not limited to an accurate and speedy search algorithm, advertising platform or conundrum of web services.
事实上谷歌的优势并不仅仅在于其精确快速的搜索算法、广告平台、丰富的网络服务。