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单词 flummox
释义
flummox
verb[T]
informal
uk
/ˈflʌm.əks/us
/ˈflʌm.əks/
toconfusesomeone so much that they do notknowwhat to do:
使困惑；使不知所措
I have to say that lastquestionflummoxed me.我得说最后一个问题让我不知如何回答。
Synonyms
baffle
bewilder
mystify
puzzle
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Puzzle and confuse
  • addle
  • baffle
  • bedazzle
  • befuddle
  • bemuse
  • discombobulate
  • disorientate
  • dosomeone'shead inidiom
  • fox
  • fuddle
  • knock/throwsomeonefor a loopidiom
  • loop
  • puzzle
  • search
  • throw
  • throw(someone)a curve (ball)idiom
  • throwsomeoneoff balanceidiom
  • tie
  • tiesomeone(up) in knotsidiom
  • unbalance
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flummoxed
(Definition offlummoxfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofflummox

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Occasionally one can abstain not simply because one is cowardly but because one is flummoxed.
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The condition is especially flummoxing because its exact cause is unknown.
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However, even the mediaeval theologians might have been flummoxed by the complexity of what we have now been offered.
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That is why people are being flummoxed and smokescreened.
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The best men are often flummoxed by such a literary challenge.
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I am grateful for the chance to speak, but somewhat flummoxed by the shortness of the time available to me.
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We are flummoxed as to what is meant by "selling by retail trade".
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The smooth talk will go on and ordinary people will be flummoxed and will not know what to do.
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He has rather flummoxed me on the word "sometimes".
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In doing so, however, he completely flummoxed me.
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That really didflummoxmy dear old friend.
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It looks bad when a superpower is flummoxed because its esteem in the eyes of others slumps.
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I should not have thought that they would be at all flummoxed by form-filling.
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Will he give us a substantive reply rather than the bluster that we are used to when he is flummoxed?
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That flummoxed me for a moment.
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