western executives are often perplexed and sometimes misled by the extreme reluctance of the courteous japanese to answer any suggestion with a flat no.
greg, one of the founders (who prefers not to have his last name known), recalled a time when a perplexed policeman asked why they were daubing a house.
the question of how many rocky worlds exist in the galaxy has perplexed astronomers for the better part of a century.
在大半个世纪里,银河系有多少巖石星球的问题一直困惑着天文学家们。
meanwhile, consumers remain perplexed about which food to buy and which labels assure safer and better-tasting food.
同时,消费者们依然对应该购买哪种食品、哪种商标才能保证食品更加安全和更好吃而感到困惑。
and the white house is perplexed by the uncharacteristic lack of discipline indicated by clinton's occasional overseas gaffes.
与此同时,白宫也因克林顿在国外偶尔言行不当所表现出反常的的缺乏原则而困惑不已。
so when the call came, he was oddly perplexed to learn that colleen was not in fact dead, but had only lost her leg.
所以当他接到电话,得知科琳不是阵亡了,而是失去了一条腿,他有一种莫名地不知所措的感觉。
his strange behaviour perplexed her greatly.
他的奇怪举止使她茫然不解。
readers may be perplexed themselves when they see that most of these questions appear to be the very ones i seemed to have answered in the preceding chapters!
读者们看到这里列举的大部分问题似乎就是我在上述章节中已经回答过的问题,也许会感到困惑。
they will most likely ask you, 「what are you reading?」 with a perplexed look in their face.