baffling

1 Early reviewers called it “strange,” “disagreeable,” “baffling,” “disjointed” and even “inexpressibly painful.”

2 The French are all inscrutable, but each one is baffling in a particular way, depending on gender, class, generation and temperament.

3 But he has given some bafflingly blatant performances of the staples.

4 But his coded emotional settings seemed elusive, even baffling, as did his stylistic relationship to current art.

5 The collection of personal ephemera seemed a little baffling and elegiac at first, but, taken together with the paintings on view, they offer a window onto Henry's emergence as an artist.

6 "It’s also pretty baffling to me that she just assumed her father was paying without even asking first."

7 Combine it with the darkness, the slowness — and I haven’t even gotten to the baffling lack of tension or surprise.

8 Just as baffling, just as easy, was the way he said, in his gentle voice, that he loved me, he missed me, he was glad to talk to me.

9 Colorful Post-its with baffling messages such as “cucumber” and “Java” are stuck on walls where clusters of staff congregate in stand-up discussions.

10 Dark energy is possibly even more baffling than dark matter.

暗能量大概要比暗物质更让人无头绪。

11 He quoted the baffling commentary of art “experts” and showed auctions at which prices soared into the millions.

12 At home, though, my dad’s language was often dismissive, hostile, and unpredictable, almost baffling.

13 This mingling and trading works so well that it’s baffling when the production swerves into a glow-in-the-dark section in which the dancers arrange their objects into a smiley face.

14 Last year, I thought the show's greatest weakness was Cathy's baffling choice to act out while not explaining herself.

15 Models sometimes work the same baffling expression ad nauseam.

16 The fact that the film’s director, Kathryn Bigelow ended up becoming a major filmmaker – someone, at the very least, who excels are sketching chemistry between her characters – makes the whole thing even more baffling.

17 A highly divisive band, known best for its obsessive, vagabond following, Phish remains a baffling success in the music industry.

18 The onslaught of news and drama and baffling presidential tweets kept coming and coming, wearing at her hope.

19 You know you are maturing when you begin to see the hand of God in the random, baffling, and seemingly pointless circumstances of life.

当你开始看见神的手在杂乱无章、千篇一律、漫无目标的生活中带领你的时候，你便知道自己正日趋成熟。

20 Readers of Modern Love may want a good story, but they’re also hungry for advice that can help them navigate the baffling world of relationships.

1 抑制的

repressive coercive suppressive

2 起阻碍作用的

disincentive

3 使人为难的

embarrassing

4 人为难的

embarrassing

5 抑制

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6 困惑

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7 为难

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8 难以处理的

problem

9 不能理解的

incomprehensible

10 难以处理

problem delicacy

11 困惑的

kerflumixed lost confused troubled helpless bemused perplexed rattled confounded

12 使困惑

get stick throw bug stumble fox stun gravel lick intrigue stump maze riddle buffalo evade tangle confound perplex obfuscate bedevil bedazzle kittle befog moider knock sideways

13 难解

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14 令人困惑

confusing puzzling bewildering enigmatically bewilderingly catchy perplexing mystifying

15 为难的

lost worried awkward troubled bothersome puzzling perplexed mazy spiflicated

16 难解的

involved abstract obscure inaccessible esoteric enigmatic puzzling unintelligible hermetic abstruse Delphic recondite

17 令人困惑的

confusing puzzling bewildering catchy perplexing mystifying