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单词 conundrum
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conundrum
noun[C]
uk
/kəˈnʌn.drəm/us
/kəˈnʌn.drəm/
aproblemthat isdifficulttodealwith:
难题；复杂的问题
Arrangingchildcareover theschoolholidayscan be arealconundrum forworkingparents.对双职工家长来说，学校放假期间如何安排照看孩子是个大难题。
aquestionthat is atrick, ofteninvolvingahumoroususe of words that have twomeanings
（常以双关妙语为答案的）谜语
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Confusion, confusing and feeling confused
(Definition ofconundrumfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

conundrum| American Dictionary

conundrum
noun[C]
us
/kəˈnʌn·drəm/
aproblemthat isdifficulttodealwith:
Thebestshowsposemoralconundrums that are hard tosolve.
(Definition ofconundrumfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconundrum

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He was perhaps too impatient with overly philosophical conundrums and also seemed unaware that serious literature, like philosophy, no longer captured the imagination of many younger people.
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However, previous attempts at synthesis of archaeological, historical and palaeoenvironmental evidence were undermined by the paucity of the data, as well as by dating and other interpretative conundrums.
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Scholars who have worked with early photographs will know how difficult it is to read them and that they usually open up as many conundrums as insights.
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Defining feminism: conundrums, contexts, communities.
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Few moral dilemmas present us with truly novel conundrums.
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Carbon-13 conundrums: limitations and cautions in the use of stable isotope analysis in stream ecotonal research.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There is no use in putting elaborate conundrums.
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Here again, we are being asked these legal conundrums.
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We have had the question of the nationalisation of the land, and so on, and other conundrums which have puzzled the electorate for many generations.
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However, training has become an all-encompassing remedy for all of society's insurmountable policy conundrums.
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Civil servants cannot serve two masters, and yet we are introducing another of these irreducible conundrums.
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Indeed, we have been wrestling with that problem and a number of other similar conundrums for some time.
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As is so often the case with such conundrums, it is far easier to categorise the two extremes than the grey area that lies between.
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Their time ought not to be taken up with legislative conundrums.
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One could go on for ever thinking up equally unanswerable conundrums.
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