riddle /ˈrɪdəl/ CET6+ TEM4 ( riddling, riddled, riddles )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT A riddle is a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems to be nonsense but which has a clever or amusing answer. 谜语

  例：

  All comers to the Sphinx were asked a riddle, and failure to solve it meant death.

  所有来到斯芬克斯面前的人都被问了一个谜语，解答不了就意味着死亡。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT You can describe something as a riddle if people have been trying to understand or explain it but have not been able to. 谜

  例：

  Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the riddle of the birth of the universe.

  科学家们昨天宣布已经解开了宇宙诞生之谜。

• 3. 

  V to solve, explain, or interpret (a riddle or riddles) 猜(谜); 解(谜)

• 4. 

  V-T If someone riddles something with bullets or bullet holes, they fire a lot of bullets into it. (用子弹) 把…打得千疮百孔

  例：

  Unknown attackers riddled two homes with gunfire.

  不明来路的袭击者用枪把两座房屋打得千疮百孔。

• 5. 

  N a sieve, esp a coarse one used for sand, grain, etc 粗筛

• 6. 

  V-T to put through a sieve; sift