唐納德·川普的威脅和武力展示屢屢失靈，令他的官員們百思不得其解。 https://econ.st/4bQK0e…
1876年，西格蒙德·佛洛伊德解剖了400條鰻魚，試圖找出它們的睪丸。他大吃一驚——一條也沒有。時至今日，鰻魚的交配習性仍是個科學謎團。
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鰻魚神秘的一生
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唐納德·特朗普向七國集團拋出一枚“手榴彈”
貿易戰的風險原本就很高。這無濟於事
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正如謝默斯·希尼在《墊腳石：謝默斯·希尼訪談錄》（2008）中所述，20世紀80年代中期，《諾頓英國文學選集》的編輯們首次邀請他翻譯《貝奧武夫》。儘管他…
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In 1876 Sigmund Freud dissected 400 eels looking for testicles. He was flummoxed—there were none. To this day, the eel's mating habits remain a scientific mystery
biological enigma
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The mysterious life and times of eels
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Mr Trump is unhappy with remarks made by Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister. What exactly he is unhappy with has flummoxed Canadian spokespeople
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The risks of a trade war were already high. This will not help
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‘Gold under gravel, gone to earth, / as useless to men as it ever was’ – by Seamus Heaney
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China’s leaders are undoubtedly flummoxed by Trump.
Molenbeek has been known as a hotspot for IS activity ever since the Paris bombings. Yet security forces failed to penetrate its jihadist networks
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China’s leaders are undoubtedly flummoxed by Trump.
Molenbeek has been known as a hotspot for IS activity ever since the Paris bombings. Yet security forces failed to penetrate its jihadist networks
Give the Ref a Gavel
By ELDON L. HAM
The real obstacle to prosecuting excessive violence in sports may be our culture's macho conception of athletes, who are expected to "man up" in the face of threats to their safety.
Everyone here is flummoxed about why the president is in such a fine mood.
Chislehurst (pronounced /ˈtʃɪzəlhɜrst/) is a suburban settlement in south east London, England and an electoral ward of the London Borough of Bromley.
Etymology
The name "Chislehurst" is derived from the Saxon words "cisel" which means gravel and "hyrst" which means wooded hill.
Mansions Go Under the Gavel
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With the real estate market in the doldrums, many owners of multimillion-dollar homes are being pushed by creditors or courts to use auctions.
Taiwan gravel shippers say China is killing their business
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – More than a hundred gravel shippers called on the government Monday to persuade China to lift a ban on their business despite direct ...
gravel
noun [U]
small rounded stones, often mixed with sand:
a gravel path
gav·el1 (găv'əl)砂石
n.
- A small mallet used by a presiding officer or an auctioneer to signal for attention or order or to mark the conclusion of a transaction.
- A maul used by masons in fitting stones.
To bring about or compel by using a gavel: “The chairman . . . tries to gavel the demonstration to an end” (New Yorker).
[Origin unknown.]
gravel
noun [U]
small rounded stones, often mixed with sand:
a gravel path
gravelled, US USUALLY graveled
gravelly
adjective
gravelly soil
gavel
(găv'əl)
n.
- A small mallet used by a presiding officer or an auctioneer to signal for attention or order or to mark the conclusion of a transaction.
- A maul used by masons in fitting stones.
To bring about or compel by using a gavel: "The chairman . . . tries to gavel the demonstration to an end" (New Yorker).
[Origin unknown.]
gav·el2 (găv'əl)
n.
Tribute or rent in ancient and medieval England.
[Middle English, from Old English gafol.]
flummox
verb [T] INFORMAL
to confuse someone so much that they do not know what to do:
I have to say that last question flummoxed me.Meaning #1: be a mystery or bewildering to
flummoxed
adjective
INFORMAL
He looked completely flummoxed.
flummoxed; flummoxing; flummoxes
Definition of flummox
: CONFUSEHe was flummoxed by the legal jargon.a happy innocent who had been flummoxed by wily city slickers— Andy Logan
Did You Know?
No one is completely sure where the word flummox comes from, but we do know that its first known use is found in Charles Dickens' 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers and that it had become quite common in both British and American English by the end of the 19th century. One theory expressed by some etymologists is that it was influenced by "flummock," a word of English dialectical origin used to refer to a clumsy person. This "flummock" may also be the source of the word lummox, which also means "a clumsy person."
‘That ain’t no part of the present consideration, Sammy,’ replied Mr.Weller. ‘Verever he’s a-goin’ to be tried, my boy, a alleybi’s the thing to get him off. Ve got Tom Vildspark off that ‘ere manslaughter, with a alleybi, ven all the big vigs to a man said as nothing couldn’t save him. And my ‘pinion is, Sammy, that if your governor don’t prove a alleybi, he’ll be what the Italians call reg’larly flummoxed, and that’s all about it.’
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2012/02/03 - Dickens's very first novel, The Pickwick Papers from 1837, introduced such slang terms as butter-fingers ("a clumsy person"), flummox ("bewilder"), sawbones ("
