baffle

• vt. 使…困惑；使…受挫折；用擋板控製
• n. 擋板；困惑
• vi. 做徒勞掙紮

擬聲詞。

baffle

baffle: [16] The etymology of baffle is appropriately baffling. Two main candidates have been proposed as a source. The first is the medieval Scots verb bawchill or bauchle, meaning ‘discredit publicly’. This fits in with the way baffle was first used: ‘I will baffull your good name, sound with the trumpet your dishonour, and paint your pictor with the heeles vpward, and beate it in despight of yourselfe’, Churchyardes chippes 1570.

The other strand is represented by French bafouer ‘hoodwink, deceive’, which perhaps comes from Old French beffer. This corresponds more closely to the present-day meaning of baffle, and it may well be that there are two distinct words here.

baffle (v.)

1540s, "to disgrace," perhaps a Scottish respelling of bauchle "to disgrace publicly" (especially a perjured knight), which is probably related to French bafouer "to abuse, hoodwink" (16c.), possibly from baf, a natural sound of disgust, like bah (compare German baff machen "to flabbergast"). Meaning "to bewilder, confuse" is from 1640s; that of "to defeat someone's efforts" is from 1670s. Related: Baffled; baffling.

baffle (n.)

"shielding device," 1881, from baffle (v.).

1. She had then offered him the chance to baffle his doom.

當時她向他提供戰勝厄運的機會.

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2. I do not therefore baffle the reader with disputable statistics.

因此,我不想拿一些值得爭論的統計數字來為難讀者.

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3. He tried hard to baffle our plan.

他力圖阻撓我們的計劃.

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4. It has been a common practice to design a baffle system to suppress sloshing.

一般的作法是設計一個擋流板係統來阻止晃動.

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5. Seldon, as he ran, bounded from side to side to baffle and deceive their aim.

塞爾登一會兒跳到這邊,一會兒跳到那邊跑著, 搞亂和幹擾他們的目標.

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