Word · Frequency #13883
riddle
谜语；难题
A puzzling question or problem, especially one asked as a game.
- 1.
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
文字谜题或智力问题
- 2.
A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
粗网筛,用于分离粗细材料
- 3.
One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
祭坛两侧的帷幕之一
- 4.
a difficult problem
难题
- 5.
An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
古老的文字、诗歌或文学形式,其中有隐藏意义的对立表达
- 6.
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
用来拉直铁丝的锯齿板
- 7.
a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
粗筛
粗筛；筛子；谜语诗（古文体）；祭坛帷幔；金属丝矫直板；文字谜题或智力问题
In use
The ancient riddle took me hours to solve.
She posed a riddle that no one could answer.
The construction worker used a riddle to separate large stones from sand.
Connections
Collocations
- solve a riddle
- 解开谜语
- It took us a long time to solve the riddle.我们花了很长时间才解开这个谜语。
- answer a riddle
- 猜出谜语
- The children listened carefully and answered the riddle in seconds.孩子们仔细听着，几秒钟就猜出了谜语。
- pose a riddle
- 出谜；提出难题
- The scientist posed a riddle that challenged the whole field.这位科学家提出了一个难倒整个领域的难题。
- riddle of the Sphinx
- 斯芬克斯之谜
- Oedipus famously solved the riddle of the Sphinx.俄狄浦斯以解开斯芬克斯之谜而闻名。
- an unsolved riddle
- 未解之谜
- How the ancient stones were moved remains an unsolved riddle.这些古代巨石是如何搬动的仍是一个未解之谜。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想 rid（摆脱）：猜谜帮你摆脱困惑，粗筛帮你摆脱杂质。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：儿童谜语书、智力问答、日常对话 作名词表示“谜语/难题”时语气中性，通常用于日常交流或书面描写，口语和正式场合均常见。
Grammar Note
常与solve, pose等动词搭配
Pronunciation & Spelling
middle、fiddle、piddle、twiddle 与 riddle 押韵，都以 /ɪd.əl/ 结尾，拼写都是 -iddle。little、brittle 虽然形似（-ittle），但以 /ɪt.əl/ 结尾，读 /t/ 而不读 /d/，所以不押韵。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.