riddle

英 [ˈrɪdl]

美 [ˈrɪdl]

n. 谜; 谜语; 神秘事件; 无法解释的情况
v. 使布满窟窿

过去分词：riddled　复数：riddles　过去式：riddled　现在分词：riddling　第三人称单数：riddles　

Collins.1 / BNC.13883 / COCA.11712

习惯用语

be riddled with sth

noun

谜；谜语
a question that is difficult to understand, and that has a surprising answer, that you ask sb as a game
1. Stop talking in riddles (= saying things that are confusing) ─say what you mean.
  别拐弯抹角了，有话直说。
2. to solve the riddle of the Sphinx
  解开斯芬克斯之谜
神秘事件；无法解释的情况
a mysterious event or situation that you cannot explain
1. the riddle of how the baby died
  婴儿死亡之谜

verb

使布满窟窿
to make a lot of holes in sb/sth
1. The car was riddled with bullets .
  这辆车被子弹打得千疮百孔。

谜;谜语
Ariddleis a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems to be nonsense but which has a clever or amusing answer.
N-COUNT 谜团;费解的事
You can describe something as ariddleif people have been trying to understand or explain it but have not been able to.
1. Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the riddle of the birth of the Universe.
  科学家们昨天声称已经解开了宇宙形成之谜。
VERB （用子弹）把…打得到处是洞，使满是弹孔
If someoneriddlessomethingwithbullets or bullet holes, they fire a lot of bullets into it.
1. Unknown attackers riddled two homes with gunfire...
  来路不明的袭击者用枪炮将两处住宅打得千疮百孔。
2. The darkness saved me from being riddled with bullets.
  身处黑暗中让我不至于被子弹打得浑身是洞。

noun

verb

set a difficult problem or riddle
1. riddle me a riddle
explain a riddle
speak in riddles
spread or diffuse through
1. An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration
2. music penetrated the entire building
3. His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks
Synonym:permeatepervadepenetrateinterpenetratediffuseimbue
pierce with many holes
1. The bullets riddled his body
separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
Synonym:screen

You answer the riddle, the poem riddle.
回答这个谜语，诗中的谜语。
They were comparing notes on each other's progress towards solving that most taxing of all puzzles: the riddle of the human genome
他们就解决人类所面临的最大难题，即人类基因组之谜的进展情况交换了意见。
Can you answer this riddle?
你能猜出这个谜语吗？
Now, each of us has a riddle for you.
现在咱俩就给你一人出一个谜语。
So the little poem is a riddle that contains these doctrines within itself.
所以这首小诗，其实是包含了这些教义的谜语。
Probably it is another riddle of the riddles.
这大概又是一个难以说清的谜外谜了。
More of a riddle, actually.
事实上更象是个谜语。
One day, in heaven garden, she met a charming man named night, just like a riddle.
有一天，在上帝的花园里，她碰到了暗夜，一个谜一样的男子。
But behold a marvel and a riddle!
但拭目瞧瞧一个奇迹和一个谜吧！
Riddle me a riddle, what is this?
给你猜一个谜，你猜这是什么谜？