- 1令人困惑的、令人眼花撩亂的(形容事物)。最常見的用法是搭配「數量多到不知從何選起」,例如 a bewildering array of choices=多到令人眼花撩亂的選擇。也可以指真的複雜到看不懂的事物,如 a bewildering set of rules。
Bewildering describes the thing that does the confusing — and it has drifted into a special job that is worth learning as a phrase, not just a word. Its most common use by far is with words of quantity: a bewildering array of, a bewildering variety of, a bewildering number of, a bewildering choice of. In that use it does not really mean 'this is impossible to understand'; it means 'there is so much of it that you do not know where to look'. A supermarket aisle with forty kinds of shampoo is bewildering in exactly this sense — nothing there is hard, there is just too much. That is the everyday, almost cheerful use, and it is common in travel writing, menus, product reviews and journalism. The word also keeps its full strength for things that genuinely leave you lost: a bewildering set of rules, a bewildering series of events, a bewildering decision by the referee — here it does mean 'I cannot make sense of this'. Notice the two flavours are not the same feeling: by abundance versus unable to follow. Context tells you which. The adverb 'bewilderingly' works the same way ('bewilderingly complex'). And keep the pair straight: the choice is bewildering, the is bewildered.
組成bewilder(使困惑)+ -ing(形容詞字尾,表示「造成…的」,用在事物身上)。
同家族的字
- bewilderthe verb this adjective is formed from
- bewilderedthe -ed partner, used for the person who feels it
- wildernessshares the old 'wilder' (to lead astray into wild country)
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bewilderingadj/bɪˈwɪldəɹɪŋ/
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Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.
- There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.
- —At once bewildering mists around him close, / And cold and hunger are the least of woes; / The Demon of the Snow, with angry roar / Descending, shuts for aye his prison door.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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