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Перевод: puzzling

[прилагательное]
приводящий в замешательство; сбивающий с толку; головоломный

Тезаурус:

1. On several occasions I witnessed his lordship make attempts to draw M. Dupont aside for some private conversation, only for Mr Lewis smilingly to impose himself upon them with some remark like: "Pardon me, gentlemen, but there's something that's been greatly puzzling me," so that his lordship soon found himself having to listen to some more of Mr Lewis's jovial anecdotes.
2. All her thinking and watching and planning, from the first sound of the car on the track while she and Joe crouched by the netted gate to that last desperate shout that Doyle had cut short, all that worrying and puzzling had ended up like this.
3. But I would much rather find Mason puzzling than feel, as I do only too often, that I know all too well what so many of his more consistently praised contemporaries are on about, in music that routinely tells me nothing I didn't know already, or would indeed prefer never to hear again.
4. Another example is the puzzling situation when an otherwise bright, healthy child has difficulty mastering reading and spelling - a syndrome labelled as dyslexia - and investigation is required, perhaps to be followed by a special educational programme (Yule, 1988).
5. IT IS a rather puzzling irony that in a country where we are apparently so obsessed with our homes, such a huge proportion of our new houses are mass produced boxes which are put up speculatively by developers who have little knowledge of their end customers' needs and requirements.
6. Initially, that gaping space can be a little puzzling, but it's quite simple really.
7. The injectors have been checked again and are OK, but the noise is puzzling,
8. He was not sure which he wanted her to be and was still puzzling about it next day when she called to take him down.
9. The next action, however, was taken not by the Protestants but by the Catholics; and a very puzzling one it was.
10. For he thinks it is scientifically debatable, ambiguous and controversial, and yet it is convincing, because "in some puzzling way it is true".
11. "This is what all the other guests say, sir, and that is what is puzzling us."
12. Donal Hickey at the University of Ottawa suggested a decade ago that sex - by which he meant the entirely puzzling need to mix the genes of different individuals while reproducing - first happened because certain genes selfishly forced their possessors to do it.
13. It was all exceedingly puzzling, and alarming.