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

• More innovative approaches are required to tackle social conundrums and to clear paths for progress.
  需要更具创新性的手段从而应对社会难题和为进步扫清道路。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• The situations in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Bahrain pose another set of conundrums.
  沙特、也门以及巴林的局势构成了另一组谜题。
• 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。
• Interestingly, had C++'s support for private inheritance carried over into the Java language, we could use it today to resolve some of the conundrums of the JavaBeans specification.
  有趣的是，C++对于私有继承的支持在Java语言中得到了延续，今天，我们用它来解决JavaBeans规范的难题。
• It is one of the chief tech conundrums of the decade: people are flocking away from desktops and laptops and toward mobile devices, but the mobile-ad economy is terrible.
  它是十年来最困扰业界的技术难题之一：用户正在从台式机和笔记本电脑转向移动设备，但是移动广告的市场表现却惨不忍睹。
• 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。