quandary

1 So the gift the commenters to the “quandary” gave her was the discovery that something E. had long regarded as shameful wasn’t nearly as rare as she’d believed.

2 Through it all, Black tries to puzzle out a quandary: How to live faithfully in the present without betraying the past?

3 And if you have a quandary, you can let us know by e-mail: Motherlode@nytimes.com.

4 Instead, “In the Dream House” is primarily about the quandary of constructing “In the Dream House.”

5 This avoided potential airport delays and hassles and allowed travelers to see the countryside, but it presented a another quandary: The trains aren’t equipped to store luggage.

6 Being able to ask such a question suggests relative privilege—it’s the kind of existential quandary that only vexes those with enough distance to look back at where it all began.

7 As usual, Homer faces a moral quandary, as he is tempted to use Moe as a plant for a premise suggestion.

8 Then stay tuned for a return to the question next Friday, along with another quandary for the hive mind of Motherlode.

9 In this live taping of a podcast by the same name, the 91-year-old food critic Mimi Sheraton takes calls from listeners around the world, listens to their queries and quandaries, and offers sage advice.

10 Slowing sales are putting developers everywhere in a quandary.

销售速度放慢使得开发商陷入窘境。

11 Mo writes of visceral pleasures and existential quandaries, creating vivid characters.

12 The nomination of these collectives underlines the quandary for the Turner Prize today: Is its role to capture the zeitgeist, or to reward excellence?

13 The characters take turns delivering rants, summing up their various existential quandaries, each moving in a distinctive, repetitive way that suggests the inner workings of some enormous, sinister device.

14 But Ms. Lee, the former Food Network personality and cookbook author, is the queen of making something out of nothing, and assured me she would find a way out of my cupboard quandary.

15 Provocative characters make terrible decisions to draw us into their moral quandaries.

16 The current version of this quandary is whether, if the latest ceasefire fails, to arm Ukraine.

当前的困境在于，一旦无法达成最新的停火协议，要不要武装乌克兰。

17 His hard little face looked flintier than ever and Scarlett was in a quandary.

他这时板着的面孔看上去比石头还坚硬,思嘉进退两难了.

18 I was put in a quandary.

我陷入进退两难的窘境中.

19 Vladimir Nabokov, who found Dostoyevsky “mediocre,” explored similar themes of moral quandary and mental anguish in his polarizing landmark work, “Lolita.”

20 Scientists have been wrestling with this quandary for over a century.

科学家在这个难题上的努力奋斗超过一个世纪。

1 窘况

fix corner jam predicament

2 困窘

nonplus need confusion faze on your uppers

3 窘境

hole corner difficulty perplexity jam scrape dilemma a tight corner banana skin fix trouble plight predicament straits nonplus double-bind pickle a kettle of fish

4 进退两难

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5 左右为难

dilemmatic double-bind on the horns of a dilemma in a box in a bind

6 犹豫不决

hesitant undecided indecisive irresolute shilly-shally incertitude indetermination balance halt in two minds

7 困境

fix hole corner difficulty bind trap mess jam scrape dilemma pickle strait peril plight predicament mire slough morass hot seat a tight corner rat trap a hornets' nest flow hardship cul-de-sac stymie quagmire tight corner on the horns of a dilemma

8 困惑

worried puzzled bemused quizzical confounded bushed bemusedly disconcertedly bepuzzlement puzzle confusion embarrassment delusion puzzlement bemusement bafflement mystification bedevilment stick bemuddle get floor beat pose confuse fog fox gravel devastate stump baffle buffalo confound perplex vex obfuscate bamboozle bemuse befog up a stump knock sideways throw sideways in a fog lost hazy perplexed muddle bewilderment perplexity defeat flap at a loss swither dizzy distraction tangle daze boggle flummox discombobulate throw distract evade embarrass discomfit exercise labour lick stagger take aback be hung up tie in knots muddled foxed question disconcert get your knickers in a twist at sea troubled mazy astonied maze obfusticate chevy kittle embrangle kerflumixed confused helpless baffling rattled involvement enigma pucker discomfiture disconcertion bug stumble stun intrigue riddle bedevil bedazzle cumber moider

9 不知所措

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