riddle /ˈrɪdəl/ star1 CET6+ TEM4 (riddling,riddled,riddles)

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） A riddle is a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems to be nonsense but which has a clever or amusing answer. 谜语

  例：

  All comers to the Sphinx were asked a riddle, and failure to solve it meant death.

  所有来到斯芬克斯面前的人都被问了一个谜语，解答不了就意味着死亡。

• 2.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） You can describe something as a riddle if people have been trying to understand or explain it but have not been able to. 谜

  例：

  Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the riddle of the birth of the universe.

  科学家们昨天宣布已经解开了宇宙诞生之谜。

• 3.  

  V（动词） to solve, explain, or interpret (a riddle or riddles) 猜(谜); 解(谜)
• 4.  

  V-T（及物动词） If someone riddles something with bullets or bullet holes, they fire a lot of bullets into it. (用子弹) 把…打得千疮百孔

  例：

  Unknown attackers riddled two homes with gunfire.

  不明来路的袭击者用枪把两座房屋打得千疮百孔。

• 5.  

  N（名词） a sieve, esp a coarse one used for sand, grain, etc 粗筛
• 6.  

  V-T（及物动词） to put through a sieve; sift