conundrum
[kə'nʌndrəm]
n.谜语, 难题
n.
谜语; 难题; 机智问答
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conundrum[kə'nʌndrəm]n.1.■(谜底含双关意的)谜语，双关谜2.■费解的难题，猜不透的难题近义词mystery
conundrumconundrum[kəˈnʌndrəm]n.1.■谜， 猜不透的难题； (含诙谐或双关语意的)谜语
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(pl. conundrums)
- a confusing and difficult problem or question
复杂难题
one of the most difficult conundrums for the experts.
对专家们来说最难的难题之一。
■a question asked for amusement, typically one with a pun in its answer; a riddle
（尤指答案中含双关语的）谜语
- late 16th cent.: of unknown origin, but first recorded in a work by Thomas Nashe, as a term of abuse for a crank or pedant, later coming to denote a whim or fancy, also a pun. Current senses date from the late 17th cent
conundrum
■"the conundrum, thus far unanswered, of achieving full employment without inflation" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
“如何既不引起通货膨胀又能实现全民就业这个尚未解决的难题”(小阿瑟M.施莱辛格)
■A conundrum of a city. Same scenes, same routes, and same destinies...
一座城市的一个难题。同样的场景，同样的路线，以及同样的命运。
■Instead of working out who owns what, lawyers and mediators are trying to figure out the fiendishly trickier conundrum of who owes what.
不再争吵谁该拥有该房子，相反律师和仲裁想方设法解决该由谁来承担这个棘手的问题。
■Incontinence loses its force as a conundrum and becomes merely an indicator of the need to transcend nature with culture.
不能自制作为一个答案有双关意义的难题失去了它的影响力，变成仅仅是要用文明来超越本性的指示。
■That, however, is a lesser evolutionary conundrum than the one posed by her tiny brain, he asserts.
不过，沃波夫坚称，小的脑子引起的问题是比较大的演化谜团，这个问题比较小。
■It is a measure of the conundrum that is China that investors, economists and even policy-makers in Beijing are divided about whether the economy is slowing down or speeding up.
中国如谜,难以揣度。中国经济发展究竟是在放缓,还是在加速,投资者、经济学家,甚至北京的决策人都意见不一。
■Yet, perhaps precisely because things look so bad in Iraq and the Iranian nuclear conundrum seems so insoluble, the Americans may think another push for peace worthwhile.And about time too.
也许正是因为伊拉克局势太糟糕，伊朗核问题太棘手，美国考虑另择时机，使用其他有效的方法来推动和平。
■Perhaps the largest conundrum to face MacArthur Fellows is figuring out why they were chosen.
也许麦克阿瑟奖获得者面临的最大难题就是弄清楚为什么选择了他们。
■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。
■Interaction designers often face the conundrum of whether to make their products user-customizable.
交互设计者经常面临这样的难题，即是否让他们的产品具有用户定制功能。
■Function of the Cardiac Myocyte in the Conundrum of End-Stage, Dilated Human Heart Failure
人扩张性心衰末期的心肌细胞功能
■Thus a conundrum: posing a problem as one of “environmental security” may inhibit cooperation in the very places where the ecological insecurities of people and communities are most stark.
从而也提出了这样一个难题：将一个问题定义为“环境安全”的问题之一很可能会妨碍那些真正面临安全隐患问题的人民和地区之间的合作。
■He says: For guys, facial hair is the real conundrum.
他观点：对男人来说，脸上的胡子是个真正的难题。
■In the past Mr Paulson has been rather sympathetic to the Chinese on their currency conundrum, so this does not bode well for relations between the two.
以前他对中国的汇率难题很是同情，这对两国关系来说并不是个好兆头。
■Values Conundrum: Will the U. S. and China Play by the Same Rules?
价值观难题:美国和中国会遵循同样的规则吗?
■However, too hypo regeneration frequency restricted transgene project developing of grape now. Conquering this conundrum and improving regeneration became the hot spot research in grape biotechnology breeding.
但是葡萄转基因工程目前发展的瓶颈是葡萄再生频率低,突破再生频率这一难题,使其高效地再生是葡萄生物技术育种在当前的研究热点。
■In Hesse this has created an almost insoluble coalition conundrum.
但是黑森的情况却非常复杂难辨方向。
■Your mind resolves this conundrum by deciding that actually the study was pretty interesting after all.
你的大脑决定认为这个研究实际上比较有趣，以此来解决这个难题。
■Caymus Conundrum (Napa Valley, California, U.S.A
佳慕酒园谜园干白（加州，纳柏谷，美国）
■an issue that is a real conundrum for the experts
使专家们大伤脑筋的问题.
■Cases: Cookie Conundrum in the Doctor-Patient Drama
例:饼干的难题医患戏剧
■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。
■Precambrian conundrum
前寒武纪谜
■The fact that women everywhere report less cheating than men poses a conundrum for researchers: are married men just bedding single women or out-of-towners?
各地女人所报告的不忠数量都比男人少，这一事实给研究者出了一个难题：已婚男人是不是只和单身女人或外地人上床？
■The answer to the Senegal conundrum is of course “both”: the best players leave, and the dream of emulating them motivates many others to take their place.
因此，塞内加尔球员问题的答案是：都有可能。优秀的球员离开，而希望赶超他们的球员则留下。
■On Conundrum in Administering State-owned Companies
国有企业的公司治理难题
■In this unfolding conundrum of life andhistory, there is such a thing as being too late.
在变幻莫测的生活和历史之中，有一样东西叫做悔之晚矣。”
■The solution to this conundrum, in the eyes of many governments, is nuclearpower.
在很多政府的眼中，解决这个难题的办法就是核能。
■Reports in Portugal claim that Ferguson and Queiroz have identified Petit, of Benfica, as a possible solution to their midfield conundrum, but Mahamadou Diarra, of Lyons, is their first choice.
在葡萄牙的报道说福格森和奎罗兹考察了本菲卡的佩蒂特，把他作为一个中场难题的解决方案。但是里昂的迪亚拉是第一选择。
■In the midfield selection conundrum, Cole was a mainstay in the side after recovering from injury at the turn of the year.
在选择中场球员的这个难题中，科尔在从伤病中恢复后主要作为一位边路球员。
■The colorful mid-priced iMac has also succeeded by playing down the compatibility conundrum.
多色泽、中等价位的iMac的成功还在于它解决了计算机兼容性的难题。
■How to make good use of modern educational technologies to make an advance on the teaching reform of the advanced professional course is a non-evasive conundrum that is facing all the teachers who undertake the professional teaching job.
如何充分利用现代教育技术来推进高职课程的教学改革,这是摆在所有从事高职教育的教师面前的一道无法回避的难题。
■the conundrum, thus far unanswered, of achieving full employment without inflation(bArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
如何既不引起通货膨胀又能实现全民就业这个尚未解决的难题(b孝瑟M.施莱辛格)
■the conundrum, thus far unanswered, of achieving full employment without inflation(Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
如何既不引起通货膨胀又能实现全民就业这个尚未解决的难题(孝瑟M.施莱辛格)
■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。
■Dr.Witten and other physicists used to think this conundrum “would somehow go away.” Something was missing in physicists' understanding of physics, the logic went.
威滕和其它一些物理学家认为这个难题总会以某种方式被解决，也许那是在大家现在的逻辑认知能力之外。
■Safety learning history is a new kind of tool dealing with conundrum in safety management and turning organizational experience and knowledge into action.
安全学习志是一种用于解答安全管理难题,将组织的经验知识转化为行动的管理工具。
■Faith-based institutions appear to offer a solution to the conundrum.
宗教机构看起来为难题提供了解决方法。
■The PoultriesLet's think of eggs.They have no legs.Chickens come from eggsBut have legs.The plot thickens; Eggs come from chickens, But have no legs under'emWhat a conundrum!
家禽让我们考虑蛋,它们没有腿。鸡来自蛋但是却有腿。情节变的复杂;蛋来自鸡,可它们下面没有腿。真是一个迷!
■Many physicists focused on this conundrum, trying to formulate a theory that would represent the symmetry properties of subatomic forces while also incorporating massive particles.
很多物理学家一心一意想解决这个问题，他们的目标是建构一个理论，它既能够保有次原子核力的对称性，同时也能够包容带质量的粒子。
■Dwight: So you see the lawn chair symbolizes the anthropological conundrum that is this very existence.
德怀特：好，你算明白了，草坪上的躺椅是象征着人类本身所无法解决的难题。
■I'm going to tell you why this conundrum exists.
我打算告诉你们为什么这个谜题存在。
■Part of the problem, I suppose, is the old tone-and-content conundrum: the task of marrying the author's cool, refined style with his wild, ritzy settings.
我觉得，这个问题部分在于书中所用旧式语调措辞里的机锋：要把作者冷峻精炼的风格和狂野傲慢的文章布景结合在一起。
■I asked him that conundrum you told me and he had the answer in a tick.
我问他你告诉我的那个谜，他马上就有了答案。
■Everyone knows that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conundrum would massively help the West and its fearful local friends in their efforts to help the forces of moderation and modernity overcome those of fanaticism and backwardness.
所有人都知道，解决巴以难题将极大地有利于西方国家及其不安的中东友邦努力帮助温和而现代化的势力战胜狂热而落后的势力。
■the conundrum of achieving full employment without inflation
既不引起通货膨胀又能实现全民就业的难题
■In 1798 Thomas Malthus posed the conundrum of geometrical population growth's outstripping arithmetic expansion in resources. Malthus recommended late marriage and sexual abstinence as methods of birth control.
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■Got a riddle, puzzle, conundrum, enigma or whatever you have that can twist our brains. Post it here!
有各种谜语或难题让大夥绞尽脑汁吗?请大胆发表。
■Intriguingly, the economic message conundrum is in many ways the reverseof the two candidates' positions on rising gas prices during the summer.Then it was Sen.
有趣的是，两位候选人在宣传自己经济政策方面的手法很大程度上与他们夏季时对汽油价格飙升问题的处理调了个个儿。
■This presents America's next president with a peculiar conundrum.
杀还是不杀?这的确给下任总统出了一道难题。