riddle
n. 谜, 谜语, 粗筛 vt. 解谜, 给...出谜, 筛, 寻根究底地检验, 充满于 vi. 出谜
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A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
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Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?
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An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
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A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
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A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
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A curtain; bedcurtain.
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One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
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To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
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To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
及物Riddle me this.
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To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
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To fill with holes like a riddle.
The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.
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To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
比喻Your argument is riddled with errors.
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To plait.
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From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”). Analyzable as rede (“advice”) + -le. Akin to Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”). Cognate with Dutch raadsel, German Rätsel.
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