riddle
riddle 英 [ˈrɪdl] 美 [ˈrɪdl]
n. 谜语； v. 布满
进行时:riddling 过去式:riddled 过去分词:riddled 第三人称单数:riddles 名词复数:riddles
- What's a question or problem that requires a bit of thought before you answer? It's a riddle, of course. The verb riddle can mean to speak in a puzzling fashion, though that use is not very common.
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- n. 谜语；
- v. 布满
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1. Stop talking in riddles —say what you mean.
别拐弯抹角了，有话直说。
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2. the riddle of how the baby died
婴儿死亡之谜
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3. The car was riddled with bullets.
这辆车被子弹打得千疮百孔。
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4. His body was riddled with cancer.
癌瘤遍布他的全身。
- riddle (n.1) "A word game or joke, comprising a question or statement couched in deliberately puzzling terms, propounded for solving by the hearer/reader using clues embedded within that wording" [Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore], early 13c., from Old English rædels "riddle; counsel; conjecture; imagination; discussion," common Germanic (Old Frisian riedsal "riddle," Old Saxon radisli, Middle Dutch raetsel, Dutch raadsel, Old High German radisle, German Rätsel "riddle").
- riddle (n.2) "coarse sieve," mid-14c., alteration of late Old English hriddel, dissimilated from hridder, from Proto-Germanic *hrida- (source also of German Reiter), from PIE root *krei- "to sieve" (source also of Latin cribrum "sieve, riddle," Greek krinein "to separate, distinguish, decide").
- riddle (v.1) "perforate with many holes," 1817 (implied in riddled), earlier "sift" (early 13c.), from Middle English ridelle "coarse sieve," from late Old English hriddel "sieve," altered by dissimilation from Old English hridder "sieve" (see riddle (n.2)).
- riddle (v.2) "to pose as a riddle," 1570s, from riddle (n.1). Related: Riddled; riddler; riddling.
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