• n. 難題；謎語

牛津大學(xué)俚語，模仿拉丁詞創(chuàng)造出來的假拉丁詞，用以形容食古不化的學(xué)究，準(zhǔn)確詞源不詳。可能來自PIE*kwo, 表疑問，衍生英語詞匯how, who,what,which,why, quality, quantity.

conundrum

conundrum: [16] Conundrum originally appeared in all manner of weird and wonderful guises – conimbrum, conuncrum, quonundrum, connunder, etc – before settling down to conundrum in the late 18th century. It bears all the marks of one of the rather heavy-handed quasi-Latin joke words beloved of scholars in the 16th and 17th centuries, and a mid-17thcentury commentator attributed it to Oxford university. At first it meant ‘whim’ and then ‘pun’; the current sense ‘puzzling problem’ did not develop until the end of the 18th century.

conundrum (n.)

1590s, Oxford University slang for "pedant," also "whim," etc., later (1790) "riddle, puzzle." Also spelled quonundrum. The sort of ponderous pseudo-Latin word that was once the height of humor in learned circles.

1. Scientists had focused on two explanations to solve this conundrum.

科學(xué)家已鎖定兩種解釋來解開這個(gè)難題。

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2. Interaction designers often face the conundrum of whether to make their products user - customizable.

交互設(shè)計(jì)者經(jīng)常面臨這樣的難題,即是否讓他們的產(chǎn)品具有用戶定制功能.

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3. What I said was that there was some interest at Conundrum.

我說的是迷題出版社的人表示有興趣.

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4. Many people -- too many to count -- share your career conundrum.

許多人 -- 多的數(shù)不過來 - 有著和你一樣的職業(yè)難題.

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5. Let me give you some history about a conundrum.

讓我給你們一些關(guān)于謎題的歷史.

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