kindness towards strangers is a baffling human trait, given that strangers appear to have been treated with suspicion and violence for most of human history.
对陌生人的友善是一个让人困惑的人类特征,因为有证据显示陌生人在人类历史上普遍遭受过怀疑和暴力对待。
the most obvious is its baffling cast of leaders, who make the party a multi-headed pantomime horse.
最突出的就是它莫名其妙的领导组成,搞得人民党像匹童话剧里的多头马。
dark energy is possibly even more baffling than dark matter.
暗能量大概要比暗物质更让人无头绪。
many other jobs are allotted through a baffling system of regional quotas.
许多其它工作通过一个令人困惑的地区配额系统进行分配。
in the stress of privation and the need of effort i might sometimes forget the sombre secret ever baffling the conjecture that it compels.
在贫困的压力和对努力的需求下,我有时候会忘却那种郁郁的神秘感,它困扰着我,也由此产生诸多臆测。
more simply, it was a baffling decision; and something of a mini-tragedy in that it robbed that tournament of what might have been one of its outstanding matches.
简单地看,这只是一次莫名其妙的判罚,也是一个小小的悲剧,让一场出色的比赛,失去了应有的光彩。
for many, this was baffling at first.
对于多数人而言,这是一大困惑。
the good news: all that new research we keep hearing about, baffling though it may be, is yielding some clear—and reassuring—answers.
值得高兴的是:我们听到的所有新的研究,尽管似乎是变幻不定的,但是有些结果的确是清楚明确,令人放心的。
if i were a shareholder faced with so many boring, baffling pages that seek to excuse the inexcusable, i might be inclined to submit out of sheer weariness.
假如我是一名股东,面对这么多页无聊、令人困惑的报告试图为不可原谅的行为辩解时,我很可能会纯粹因厌烦而不去追究。
even if all i get is a press release and a baffling message from the it department, never mind.
即便我收到的只是新闻稿和it部门发送的莫名其妙的邮件,那也没关系。
the gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iphones and suchlike, are baffling 「black boxes」 – pure magic to most people.
现在充斥着年轻人的生活的玩意,iphone和其他类似的东西,是令人困惑的「黑匣子」——对大多数人而言是纯粹的魔术。
when she hears the baffling sound of me pounding the chicken breasts with a rolling pin, julie comes into the kitchen.
当朱莉听到我用搟面杖敲打鸡胸发出的莫名其妙动静时,她走进厨房。
as for rocket science, not long ago it was held up as the paragon of baffling complexity.
至于火箭科学,不久前它还被当作具有不可思议的复杂性的典型;
by using attachment theory both your own behaviour and that of others no longer seems baffling and complex, but rather predictable...
通过运用依恋理论,自己的行为和他人的行为看起来不再令人迷惑和复杂,而是相当地具有预测性…。
if further tests confirm its advantages, travellers in america may soon find themselves looking at unexpected and baffling slide-shows when they pass through the airport.
如果进一步的实验确证了它的优点,美国的乘客们很快就会发现自己在通过机场时会看到一些意想不到且令人困惑的幻灯片。
without exception, the students find the party scene baffling and uncomfortable.
在我访问的这些学生中,我发现他们的一些共性。无一例外,学生发现参加聚会很难适应而且很不舒服。
this strange process is quite baffling and i can imagine there were many heated boardroom discussions about this decision.
这一奇怪的流程相当让人沮丧,并且我能想象到这一决定会引发很多热烈讨论。
but with their long queues, poor choice, baffling arrangement of goods and grumpy assistants, they still have a long way to go before they awaken anything but resignation.
但如今的现状是排队的长龙、贫乏的可选商品,脏乱无章的商品摆放和脾气暴躁的店员,在他们意识到任何改进而不是放弃之前还有很长路要走。