Варианты произношения (4)
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/pɚˈplɛks/
Примечания к произношению
- General-American
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/pəˈplɛks/
Примечания к произношению
- Received-Pronunciation
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pɚˈplɛks
Примечания к произношению
- US
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pəˈplɛks
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Глагол
To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
Употребление- переходный глагол
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
Употребление- переходный глагол
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What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
Другие примеры (1)
The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]
To plague; to vex; to torment.
Употребление- вышедшее из употребления
- переходный глагол
- Примеры
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Chloe's the wonder of her sex, 'Tis well her heart is tender, How might such killing eyes perplex, With virtue to defend her.
All night no ruder air perplex Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright As our pure love, thro’ early light Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
Прилагательное
intricate; difficult
Употребление- архаичное
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How the soul directs the spirits for the motion of the body, according to the several animal exigents, is as perplex in the Theory, as either of the former.
Finally, I explore possible audience interpretations of the film and offer some alternative reading strategies of these highly perplex sketches.
Существительное
A difficulty.
Употребление- вышедшее из употребления
Глагол
be a mystery or bewildering to
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This beats me!
Got me — I don't know the answer!
Другие примеры (2)
a vexing problem
This question really stuck me
make more complicated
- Синонимы
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There was a new development that complicated the matter