a riddle about sth
riddle 是可能名词，指猜谜类的智力游戏，常用复数 riddles。
The children love telling riddles about animals.
孩子们喜欢讲关于动物的谜语。
谜语；难题
riddles — plural of riddle
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
A puzzling question or problem, especially one asked as a game.
文字谜题或智力问题
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
粗网筛,用于分离粗细材料
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.
祭坛两侧的帷幕之一
One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
难题
a difficult problem
古老的文字、诗歌或文学形式,其中有隐藏意义的对立表达
An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
用来拉直铁丝的锯齿板
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
粗筛
a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
The ancient riddle took me hours to solve.
这个古老的谜题花了我几个小时才解开。
用法提示：指难题
She posed a riddle that no one could answer.
她提出了一个无人能解的谜题。
用法提示：指难题
The construction worker used a riddle to separate large stones from sand.
建筑工人用粗筛将大石头和沙子分开。
用法提示：指粗筛
riddle 是可能名词，指猜谜类的智力游戏，常用复数 riddles。
The children love telling riddles about animals.
孩子们喜欢讲关于动物的谜语。
the riddle of ... 多指难以解释的重大问题或奥秘。
Scientists are still trying to solve the riddle of how life began.
科学家们仍在试图解开生命起源之谜。
be a riddle to sb 表示某人完全无法理解。
His strange behaviour was a riddle to everyone.
他奇怪的举动对所有人来说都是个谜。
puzzle 最通用，可指各种智力游戏或测试题；与 riddle 相比，不一定是以隐晦方式陈述的谜语。
enigma 强调难以理解、带神秘色彩的人或事物，常侧重抽象或人物，不指具体谜语游戏。
mystery 指无法解释或难以理解的事件，比 riddle 更强调“神秘”而非“文字谜题”。
conundrum 常指答案带双关的谜语，或棘手的难题，语气较正式。
brainteaser 指趣味性强、需要动脑的难题，属非正式用语，常用于游戏或娱乐。
grammar · medium
易错句子There are many riddle in this book.
正确表达There are many riddles in this book.
riddle 是可数名词，被 many 修饰时必须用复数形式 riddles；汉语名词不标记复数，学习者容易漏掉词尾 -s。
grammar · medium
易错句子I bought a riddle for my child.
正确表达I bought a puzzle for my child.
riddle 指要动脑猜出答案的文字谜语（谜面、谜题），而拼图、七巧板这类实物益智玩具英语叫 puzzle；汉语口语把两者都称作“谜”或“智力游戏”，所以容易混用。
grammar · medium
易错句子I don't know the answer of this riddle.
正确表达I don't know the answer to this riddle.
表示“某个谜语的答案”时，英语固定搭配是 the answer to a riddle，介词用 to 而不用 of；汉语“这个谜语的答案”用“的”，直译成 of 不符合英语搭配。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
谜语通常有一个答案，解题者需要猜出它。
谜语中常隐藏线索，帮助推理出答案。
猜谜语的过程就是solve a riddle。
谜语以问题的形式出现，考验思考。
许多谜语带有误导性的trick，需要留心。
猜猜这个谜；给我解释解释这个难题
Riddle me this: if you have only one match and enter a dark room with an oil lamp, a candle, and a fireplace, which do you light first?
猜猜这个谜：如果你只有一根火柴，走进一个有一盏油灯、一根蜡烛和一个壁炉的黑暗房间，你会先点哪个？
谜中之谜；完全捉摸不透的事物
The new policy is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, even to the experts.
这项新政策简直是个谜中之谜，连专家也搞不明白。
仍是一个谜；令人费解
How the ancient builders lifted those stones remains a riddle.
古代工匠如何抬起那些巨石仍是一个谜。
这是一个包裹在神秘之中的谜，谜中套谜。
Churchill described the country's actions as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
丘吉尔将该国的行动描述为一个包裹在神秘之中的谜，谜中套谜。
蝙蝠侠，猜猜这个谜。
The Riddler's famous catchphrase is 'Riddle me this, Batman.'
谜语人的著名口头禅是：‘蝙蝠侠，猜猜这个谜。’
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谜中之谜；神秘莫测的事物
The reporter described the case as a riddle wrapped in a mystery.
记者称这个案件像谜中之谜一样扑朔迷离。