But he was stumped by the gloomy profundities of Loch Ness.

但是他却在幽暗深邃的尼斯湖水面前受了阻。

And for a long time, researchers were totally stumped by this specimen.

很长一段时间，研究人员都被这个标本难住了。

Though it was not Monday, some woman had spread out a washing on the bushes and stumps by her house.

尽管不是星期一，一些妇女还是在她家旁边的灌木丛和树桩上铺了洗好的衣服。

You know: " I'm really stumped by a situation" , you don't know what to do, that kind of thing.

你知道：“我真的被一种情况难住了” ，你不知道该怎么做， 那种事情。

Farmers cleared their fields  and removed any tree stumps by burning them, and lumberjacks would burn any waste once an  area had been logged.

农民清理田地并通过焚烧清除所有树桩，伐木工人会在伐木后焚烧所有废物。

Ever since it was first discovered in the 1950s -- by an amateur fossil hunter named Francis Tully -- scientists have been stumped by it.

自从它在 1950 年代被一位名叫弗朗西斯·塔利 (Francis Tully) 的业余化石猎人首次发现以来，科学家们就一直被它难倒。