(n.) A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic
resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which
the answer is or involves a pun.
(n.) A question to which only a conjectural answer can be
made.
詹尼弗编辑
双语例句
This little conundrum came by the first post, and he was to follow by the next train. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
A conundrum of Mr. Weston's shall clear him and his next neighbour. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
How will a conundrum reckon? 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
I believe the theme of this incomprehensible conundrum was the moon. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
But to enable me to do so, I must first have found out the troublesome conundrum long abandoned. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.