Baffle

(noun.) a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy.

(verb.) check the emission of (sound).

编辑:凯利

• Many a wall checked but did not baffle them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Because it would baffle my efforts to listen. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• From you I have learned all I wish to know, and am now in a position to baffle both your ambition and that of Alcibiades. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He opened chests and cupboards, such as did not baffle his small experience, and in these he found the contents much better preserved. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I know their scheme, and will baffle them. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• After that I fell among those thieves, the nine figures, who seemed every evening to do something new to disguise themselves and baffle recognition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• At the bottom there was a space where two men could go through a hole; and then all the rest of the column was filled with baffle plates. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Her thoughtfulness baffled his cunning scrutiny. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Innocent III died baffled in 1216, and his successor, Honorius III, effected nothing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In fact, it was far more the fear of intrusion--the fear of yourself--that baffled me than the fear of Mrs. Yorke. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I had dared and baffled his fury; I must elude his sorrow: I retired to the door. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Or baffled, say. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I see myself baffled at every turn by their untoward effects. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It baffles me; it baffles you, it baffles everybody. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Such words, at least, have been chosen to express what is inexpressible, to describe what baffles description. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If I succeed, I clear up the mystery, exactly at the point where the mystery baffles us now! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The mystery which baffles us, baffles him too. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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