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If something flummoxes you, it leaves you completely stuck: you cannot see what it means or what to do next. People reach for it when a question, a form, a , or a sudden change has them beaten — not just a little unsure. It is a verb, and the thing that wins is usually the subject: a riddle flummoxes you; a teacher can flummox a class. Informal, still a little British and a little playful; you would not put it in a science paper, though actually educated people still say it with a smile. It is not a word for fear or shock. The mind just stops.
搞懵;弄得一頭霧水
組成Uncertain. It probably rose out of a British dialect (people have pointed to words in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, southern Cheshire, and Sheffield). The sound of the word seems to paint the idea of throwing something down in a rough, untidy way. First clear use is around 1837, in Charles Dickens.
同家族的字
- flummoxedthe -ed form: how you feel after something flummoxes you
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
flummoxverb/ˈflʌməks/
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To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
- With United's movement flummoxing the visitors, Berbatov saw his low shot saved well by Ben Foster on his first return to Old Trafford.
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To give in, to give up, to collapse.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。