rid·dle1 /ˈrɪdl/ noun [countableC] 2 MYSTERIOUSsomething that you do not understand and cannot explain 谜团,奥秘,费解之事 SYN puzzle, mysteryriddle of The police have been unable to solve the riddle of her disappearance. 警方至今未能解开她的失踪之谜。
3 talk/speak in riddles to say things in a mysterious way that other people cannot understand 打哑谜〔指说话让人难以理解〕 Stop talking in riddles and explain what’s going on! 别打哑谜了,说说是怎么回事!
talk/speak in riddles• When Tweedledum and Tweedledee talk to Alice they are almost talking in riddles.• She is described by the Argive elders as speaking in riddles because they fail to understand her predictions.• She talked in comparisons, she spoke in riddles.• She wished people wouldn't talk in riddles. solve ... riddle• Solve the riddle of this verse, Or suffer Ariaca's curse!• As if a degree could solve the riddle of Comrade Cancer.• How could he make sense of it all unless he could first solve the riddle of himself?• On his wanderings Oedipus came to Thebes, solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and thus delivered the city.• Yet we have been programmed to be curious, to question, to probe and to seek to solve riddles.• Vechey probably carried the vases around trying to solve the riddle. solve ... riddle• Solve the riddle of this verse, Or suffer Ariaca's curse!• As if a degree could solve the riddle of Comrade Cancer.• How could he make sense of it all unless he could first solve the riddle of himself?• On his wanderings Oedipus came to Thebes, solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and thus delivered the city.• Vechey probably carried the vases around trying to solve the riddle.