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A maze is a confusing set of paths and walls built so that it's hard to find your way from the entrance to the exit — you might find them for fun at fairs or in gardens, made of tall hedges. From that image, English also uses "maze" for anything and confusing that's hard to find your way through, like "a maze of rules" or "a maze of narrow streets."
迷宮;(比喻)錯綜複雜的事物
原始詞典資料9 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。
Mazename
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A surname.
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A former prison in Northern Ireland; in full, HM Prison Maze.
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A townland in County Down, Northern Ireland, the site of the former prison (Irish grid ref J 2261).
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An unincorporated community in Delaware Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, United States.
mazenoun/ˈmeɪz/
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A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
- There's plenty for toddlers too: experience the Wild West in Bear City, play with sand diggers, splash in the paddling pool and discover meerkats, reptiles and alpacas in the Zoo-Farm. Rain doesn't stop play, just head for the indoor fun factory with a rocking and rolling tugboat, mirror maze, ferris wheel and soft play.
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Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
- A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
- The project developer, Poseidon Resources Corp., has been winding its way through a maze of state and local agencies for six years
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archaicA confusion of thought; a state of bewilderment.
- But first they came to Canterbury, an olde Citie, somewhat decayed, yet beautiful to behold, most famous for a Cathedrall Church, the very Maiestie whereoff, stroke them into a maze, where they saw many monuments, and heard tell of greater, then either they euer saw, or easely would beleeue.
mazeverb/ˈmeɪz/
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archaicTo amaze, astonish, bewilder.
- they so mazed and even stupified his Conscience
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archaicTo daze or stupefy.
- mazed […] by the eyes of the crowd
- She rowed back alone, the simple soul that was in her forwandered and mazed with excess of joy.
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。