conundrums

英 [kəˈnʌndrəmz]

美 [kəˈnʌndrəmz]

n.  令人迷惑的难题; 复杂难解的问题; 谜语
conundrum的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 难题;复杂难解的问题
  Aconundrumis a problem or puzzle which is difficult or impossible to solve.
  1. ...this theological conundrum of the existence of evil and suffering in a world created by a good God.
     在善良的上帝创造的世界里存在着邪恶和苦难这一神学之谜

双语例句

• As a form of English riddles, conundrums are usually propounded to make fun.
  英语脑筋急转弯是英语谜语的一种重要形式，通过它，人们可以达到娱乐消遣的目的。
• There has been a rush to align systems, capture clients, clarify rules, navigate long-running tax disputes and resolve legal conundrums before the launch.
  沪港通启动之前，各方一直忙着对接系统、争取客户、澄清规则、厘清长久以来的税收争议，以及解决法律难题。
• One of the eternal conundrums of interaction and interface design is how to address the needs of both beginning users and expert users with a single, coherent interface.
  在交互和界面设计中，如何用同一个界面满足新手用户和专家用户的需求是长久以来存在的难题之一。
• But here are a few conundrums: how can newspapers afford high-brow journalism when advertisers shift more and more spending to digital media?
  然而，诸多难题却亟待解决：广告主开始将越来越多的费用投向数字媒体，报纸如何负担格调高雅的新闻工作？
• All told, output and margin conundrums have pushed down return on capital employed to all-time lows.
  总之，产出和利润率的双重困境，将已动用资本回报率（ROCE）推向历史新低。
• Channel-hopping from curious image to another in her visual conundrums, she evokes the non-sequential sequence of images that Xu contends parallels the ceaseless flow of images in the cyber world.
  策展人指出，通过跳跃性强、谜语般的视觉语汇，她实现了类似网络世界不间断的影像流一般的非序列的序列影像。
• With five parties now the norm in German legislatures, such conundrums will surely become more common.
  以如今五个政党在立法院的议席份额来看，以后类似的难题将会更加普遍。
• Even the gurus who position themselves as the embodiment of Old World civility feel obliged to tackle 21st-century conundrums.
  即使是那些古典礼仪专家们也感到自己有责任来解答21世纪的新难题。
• But, these researches mainly focus on the objective observation and static description of the form and content of the conundrum, which cannot provide full explanations for the internal mechanism of conundrums.
  但是，值得指出，这些研究多集中于对脑筋急转弯形式及内容的客观观察和静态描写，均不能有效揭示英语脑筋急转弯的内在机制。
• With the development of the power system in our country, how to advance the management level of the enterprise, draw examination standards and check staff performance are all the conundrums which Jixi Power Company needs to resolve in business management.
  随着我国电力企业体制改革的不断深入，如何提高企业精细化管理水平，制订考核目标和标准，考核员工的业绩，都成为鸡西市电力公司在营销管理中所面临的难题。