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quizzical + noun
quizzical 常修饰 look、smile、expression 等名词，表示困惑、探询或略带戏弄的神情。
She gave me a quizzical look.
她给了我一个探询的目光。
戏弄的；嘲弄的
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戏弄的；嘲弄的
playfully teasing or ridiculing
She gave me a quizzical look.
她给了我一个探询的目光。
探询的；困惑的。
Questioning or suggesting puzzlement.
古怪的；离奇的。
Strange or eccentric.
诙谐的；幽默的。
Jocose; humorous.
She gave me a quizzical look when I said I wanted to become a professional clown.
当我说我想成为职业小丑时，她给了我一个困惑的眼神。
His quizzical expression told me that he didn't understand my joke.
他困惑的表情告诉我他没听懂我的笑话。
The puppy tilted its head and gave us a quizzical stare.
小狗歪着头，困惑地盯着我们。
quizzical 常修饰 look、smile、expression 等名词，表示困惑、探询或略带戏弄的神情。
She gave me a quizzical look.
她给了我一个探询的目光。
作表语时，表示某人显得困惑、好奇或略带嘲弄。
His tone became quizzical.
他的语气变得有些探询。
Not this
He smiled quizzical.
Use this
He smiled quizzically.
quizzical 是形容词，不能修饰动词 smiled；修饰动作需用副词 quizzically。中文里形容词可直接作状语，英语要加 -ly 变成副词。
Not this
There were many quizzical questions in the exam.
Use this
There were many quiz questions in the exam.
quizzical 意为“戏弄的；困惑的”，与名词 quiz（测验）拼写相近但词义不同；表示“测验的题目”应用 quiz 作定语，将 quizzical 改为 quiz 才符合原意。
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探询（或戏谑）的神色
She gave me a quizzical look when I said the meeting had been cancelled.
当我说会议取消时，她探询地看了我一眼。
戏谑的微笑
He replied with a quizzical smile, as if he knew the answer all along.
他带着戏谑的微笑回答，仿佛早就知道答案。
困惑的表情
His quizzical expression told me he hadn't understood the joke.
他困惑的表情告诉我他没听懂这个笑话。
探询的一瞥
She shot me a quizzical glance from across the room.
她从房间那头投来探询的一瞥。
挑起的眉毛（表示疑惑或戏谑）
He raised a quizzical eyebrow at the suggestion.
他对这个建议挑起一根眉毛，表示疑惑。
Use quizzical naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
记住 quiz（测验）：老师出 quiz 时那种逗你、又一脸探询的表情，就是 quizzical。
语域：neutral 常见场景：文学/叙事描写、表情与语气描写 quizzical 通常用于书面或文学性描写，常修饰神情、微笑、表情等词，可表示“困惑询问的”或“开玩笑似的”。口语中较少单独使用，语气中性偏书面。
Only physical rhymes with quizzical /ˈkwɪzɪkəl/: the stressed vowel and all following sounds match (/ˈfɪzɪkəl/ vs /ˈkwɪzɪkəl/). The other -ical words (classical, typical, critical, technical) are lookalikes that sound different, with different stressed vowels. Quiet also looks similar because of the initial 'qui-', but it is pronounced /ˈkwaɪət/, entirely different from the /kwɪ/ in quizzical.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.