Regional dialects vary extensively in the space of a few miles, resulting in bafflement even among locals.
相隔几英里的地方,方言就可能大不同,即使本地人也会感到迷惑。
I responded with typical teenage indifference and bafflement born of ignorance. 「Sheez, Mom, I「m only an hour away.」
我以少年一贯的冷漠和那源于无知的不解回应她说:「行了,妈,我就只有一个小时的时间了。」
But their bafflement turned to suspicion when it emerged that Oide apparently had everything to live for.
但当他们发现大出并非没有为之奋斗的生活目标时,他们的迷惑转为了怀疑。
Seeing the spreading bafflement on the Brown」 faces, he adds 「It」s his philosophical position and beliefs I'm trying to get at here.
看到布朗夫妇的脸上的疑惑,他补充说:「我试图知道他的哲学立场和信仰。」
At first there is worldwide moral outrage; next, earnest promises that 「something must be done」; then, when rapid solutions fail to work, bafflement and finally a sense of hapless resignation.
He highlights neatly (and hilariously) Waugh’s demonic streak of prankishness: insisting to the bafflement and fury of all and sundry that Tito, the Yugoslav leader, was a woman.