riddle

          英 ['r?d(?)l] 美['r?dl]
          • vt. 解謎;給...出謎;充滿于
          • n. 謎語;粗篩;謎一般的人、東西、事情等
          • vi. 出謎
          • n. (Riddle)人名;(英)里德爾

          常用詞匯CET6+TEM4CET4GRE考研CET6低頻詞

          詞態變化


          復數:?riddles;第三人稱單數:?riddles;過去式:?riddled;過去分詞:?riddled;現在分詞:?riddling;

          中文詞源


          riddle 謎,謎語

          詞源同 read,讀,理解,猜測,-le,小詞后綴。引申詞義謎,謎語。

          英文詞源


          riddle
          riddle: [OE] English has two separate words riddle. The ‘puzzling’ sort of riddle is etymologically something you ‘read’. For it originated as a derivative of Old English r?dan, the ancestor of modern English read. One of its earlier meanings was ‘interpret’ – hence riddle. Riddle ‘sieve’ goes back to a prehistoric German khrid- ‘shake’, which also produced German dialect reiter ‘sieve’. It is also related to Latin crībrum ‘sieve’ and cernere ‘separate’ (source of English decree, discern, secret, etc).
          => read; certain, decree, discern, secret
          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 r?dels "riddle; counsel; conjecture; imagination; discussion," common Germanic (Old Frisian riedsal "riddle," Old Saxon radisli, Middle Dutch raetsel, Dutch raadsel, Old High German radisle, German R?tsel "riddle").

          The first element is from Proto-Germanic *redaz-, from PIE *re-dh-, from PIE *re(1)- "to reason, count" (cognates: Old English r?dan "to advise, counsel, read, guess;" see read (v.)). The ending is Old English noun suffix -els, the -s of which later was mistaken for a plural affix and stripped off. Meaning "anything which puzzles or perplexes" is from late 14c.
          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 (n.2)
          "coarse sieve," mid-14c., alteration of late Old English hriddel, dissimilated from hridder, from Proto-Germanic *hrida- (cognates: German Reiter), from PIE root *krei- "to sieve," and thus related to Latin cribrum "sieve, riddle," Greek krinein "to separate, distinguish, decide" (see crisis).
          riddle (v.2)
          "to pose as a riddle," 1570s, from riddle (n.1). Related: Riddled; riddler; riddling.

          雙語例句


          1. He was on a caravanning holiday.
          他駕房車外出游玩去了。

          來自柯林斯例句

          2. Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
          俄羅斯是被包藏在一個悶葫蘆里面的神秘物體之中的謎.

          來自《簡明英漢詞典》

          3. The riddle couldn't be solved by the child.
          這個謎語孩子猜不出來.

          來自《簡明英漢詞典》

          4. He found out the riddle at last.
          他終于猜出了這個謎語.

          來自《簡明英漢詞典》

          5. Her disappearance is a complete riddle.
          她的失蹤完全是一個謎.

          來自《簡明英漢詞典》

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