| 单词 | Chinese puzzle |
| 例句 | You wondered how the five people had been introduced into the place, as if it were a Chinese puzzle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “These carts are like Chinese puzzles. I suspect that I will continually be pulling at the wrong opening.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With “The Tragedy of Arthur” Mr. Phillips has created a wonderfully tricky Chinese puzzle box of a novel that is as entertaining as it is brainy. Books of The Times: Bogus Shakespeare in a Fake Memoir. Really. 2011-04-27T16:15:14Z Because they were bias-cut, as Mr. Mackie explained in an interview, “they open like a Chinese puzzle and cup at the knee, holding you in.” The Untold Story of Supreme Style 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z There is, in the abstract, something catchy about the Chinese puzzle ingenuity of the plan, about the consolidation and reinvention of the century-old stack space. Critic’s Notebook: Norman Foster’s Public Library Will Need Structural Magic 2013-01-29T23:35:04Z The movie is definitely a kind of Chinese puzzle box. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z “I am used to working with small budgets, but financing the movie felt like solving a Chinese puzzle,” says Ben Hania. Oscar-nominated film that examines freedom and identity is a first for Tunisia 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z What they did next was as blind as a Chinese puzzle. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z Tangram, tan′gram, n. a Chinese puzzle, consisting of a square of wood cut into seven pieces of various shapes. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z I took the half-truth which the public knew and it fitted like a piece of a Chinese puzzle with our discovery. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z It will fortify him in the conviction that the vivid picture has a greater communicative value than the Chinese puzzle. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z You tell me that she possesses a key to the turret door, and now Miss Noakes’s testimony fits in like the pieces in a Chinese puzzle. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z "Is it business?" the lady asked in the same tone, at the same time opening a Chinese puzzle box and putting it before another of her pupil- guests. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z "Il Pen-se-ro-so"—he was forced to spell every syllable of the strange title, and as for the poem with its many mythological allusions, it was worse than a Chinese puzzle. The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 2011-05-07T02:00:28.747Z The real problem for America is that it has few easy alternatives when it comes to solving its Chinese puzzle and leveling that field. Special report: Does corporate America kowtow to China? 2011-04-27T05:33:53Z Continued observation brings other and endless aspects of the indescribable city, which is no city, but a Chinese puzzle of separately whirling worlds within each other. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z It is in the heart of the Temple, and consists of about ten houses, every one of which, like a Chinese puzzle, contains a number of houses within itself. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z With the man who sits shut in brick walls and hung in Chinese puzzles, his ear glued to a receiver, and his finger fast to a key, and his eye riveted on a train chart? The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories She sighed a little over the quilt she was making—a wonderful quilt of white and "Turkey red," a bewildering Chinese puzzle to the uninitiated. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir And then there was a loss of fortune somehow and somewhere; a story within a story, like a Chinese puzzle. One Of Them To a young counsel ignorant of pleading, a brief will be little else than a sort of Chinese puzzle. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 Looking at it broadly, I see marriage as a Chinese puzzle, almost, but not quite, insoluble. The Intelligence of Woman The inventors of the French detective story,—that ingenious Chinese puzzle of literature,—have no such wizard as he to show. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 But which of them "got the fortune," and which had not, who held the estate at present, and how Dalton came to be there at that moment relating the story, were Chinese puzzles to him. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life “It fits together like one of those Chinese puzzles,” remarked Jack. The Motor Girls on the Coast or, The Waif From the Sea Instead of Chinese walls, we now have Chinese puzzles. Our Southern Highlanders Stanley, take Jessie up to my room, and show her your Chinese puzzle. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part "Sort o' Chinese puzzle, is it?" queried Tyke dismally. Doubloons—and the Girl If we knew more about Zara and her affairs this wouldn’t be such a Chinese puzzle. A Campfire Girl's Happiness "If mademoiselle will please," said the little French woman, drawing a low chair before the dressing-table, and taking an ivory brush, carved at the back like a Chinese puzzle, in her hand. The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals It is like a Chinese puzzle in its ingenuity, and holds the reader breathless from the first line to the last. The White Lie The chirography of Mr. Choate was equal to any Chinese puzzle; it was even more difficult to decipher than that of Horace Greeley. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Sometimes there were things inside for Lota, bird's feathers of gay colors, Chinese puzzles of carved ivory, or small pictures painted on rice paper. Nine Little Goslings To the present writer these questions present no Chinese puzzle. Birds of the Rockies It was larger, more complicated, with more masts in the harbor, new streets and horse-car lines, and every one moved about in it like the pieces of a Chinese puzzle. The Other Side of the Door Scenery in this resembles a collection of Chinese puzzles, where a few elementary pieces, through their varied assemblings, yield most diverging forms. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life The line is a Chinese puzzle about here for ten miles. The Daughter of a Magnate Uncle, it seems like a Chinese puzzle of which I have lost a piece, and none of the others will fit properly. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow To attain, therefore, the turns and tricks of this language—for it is a Chinese puzzle in its involvements—what a life must a man have led! Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General When you come to put the matter like that it becomes as inexplicable as a Chinese puzzle. A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story Wait until you get outside, away from our daylight lamps, and you will probably look like a Chinese puzzle. The Skylark of Space Each boy was provided with a large new stiff cotton handkerchief, which occupied immense space in outside pockets, crumpled as they were into a rustling ball with cruel salient angles like a Chinese puzzle. Other Main-Travelled Roads Even the great clothes philosophers did not hold that a mere Chinese puzzle of mask within mask could enclose sheer vacancy; there must be some kernel within, which may be discovered by sufficient patience. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) It was hard work, for the stones were fitted together as perfectly as the pieces of a Chinese puzzle; but at last I got one out and then the rest was easy. The Romance of Golden Star ... "This is a regular Chinese puzzle," said Dave, after an inspection of the trails. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret It's a regular Chinese puzzle, for you are precisely the same until you speak, and then there's a difference. All Aboard A Story for Girls Then took place the solution of a most confusing Chinese puzzle. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 "It sounds like a Chinese puzzle, and yet ..." The Courage of Marge O'Doone It is really much like putting together the old six-block Chinese puzzle. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries He found himself wandering around in that vicinity trying to pick up some of the pieces of the Chinese puzzle that made up the mystery of his uncle's death. Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story And Katinka talked broken English, stirring up her words in such a way that the sentences were like Chinese puzzles; they needed to be taken apart and put together differently. Dotty Dimple Out West This thing acts just like a Chinese puzzle. The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm Or, Bessie King's New Chum In the mean time, it remains, like the top of Mount Meru, covered with clouds, or, like the inside of a Chinese puzzle, a work of unrivaled art, conceivable but intangible by man. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 On the Tennysonian reader pur sang Browning's work was pretty sure to make the impression so frankly described by Frederick Tennyson to his brother, of "Chinese puzzles, trackless labyrinths, unapproachable nebulosities." Robert Browning Soon I shall be shaking the dust of Dreiberg, and I want to know beforehand what this Chinese puzzle is. The Goose Girl Aspics and desserts are, it must be said, occasionally Chinese puzzles, but if you do help yourself to part of the decoration, no great harm is done. Etiquette The toil was multiplied by the innumerable pigeon-holes, as if they fitted into one another like a Chinese puzzle, with the unlucky diver in the middle box. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 "And if she would only find us a towel-rack that didn't fall into twelve separate pieces like a Chinese puzzle every time a chap put a towel on it we'd be simply reveling in luxury." Behind the line A story of college life and football Mr. Laevsky's career lies open before you, like a long Chinese puzzle, and you can read it from beginning to end. The Duel and Other Stories It's a regular Chinese puzzle up among the mangroves, and I'm not a bit sure I could follow our trail back to fresh water. Dick in the Everglades "That's something," answered Michel Ardan, who had never been able to make a correct addition in his life, and who thus defined the rule: "A Chinese puzzle, by which you can obtain infinitely various results." The Moon-Voyage If any accident had occurred to disturb our arrangement, I am sure it would have been a Chinese puzzle to put us back again in our places. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest Even metallic money was a Chinese puzzle except to the initiated, there were so many kinds of it afloat. George Washington: Farmer "That is something!" replied Michel Ardan, who for his life could not do addition right, and who defined the rule as a Chinese puzzle, which allowed one to obtain all sorts of totals. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon The garden was so stiffly laid out in little paths and patches that the birds might have mistaken it for a great Chinese puzzle with all the pieces spread out ready for use. Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates The house was a regular Chinese puzzle and I was passed on from one person to another until I got positively dizzy. The Lady of the Decoration It is like a Chinese puzzle that one has to fit together. Daniel Deronda And thus, with our counterlikes and dislikes, most of us men-of-war's-men harmoniously dove-tail into each other, and, by our very points of opposition, unite in a clever whole, like the parts of a Chinese puzzle. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War A big, registered, sealed Chinese puzzle like that is just crying out to be opened. The Lost Naval Papers It was a Chinese puzzle no matter which way you looked at it, and as Sahwah remarked, not being Chinamen we had no cue. The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way Its bewildering squares and parallelograms were compact and perfect as a Chinese puzzle; an enormous hieroglyphic which man must decipher or die. The Ball and the Cross As Kennedy related the conversation to me on our way over to Staten Island I tried to piece the thing together, but like one of the famous Chinese puzzles, it would not come out. The Dream Doctor An improvised dockyard, equipped with powerful twenty-ton shears and other appliances, was established, and the work—complicated as a Chinese puzzle—of fitting and riveting together the hundreds of various parts proceeded swiftly. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan There he sat down and, with infinite patience, gummed the fragments on to the card, fitting them together like the pieces of a Chinese puzzle. At the Villa Rose It all fitted in like a Chinese puzzle. Tales of Men and Ghosts The difficulty of making up a Government is very much like the difficulty of putting together a Chinese puzzle: the spaces do not suit what you have to put into them. The English Constitution Awfully exciting, like putting a Chinese puzzle together. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab It was surrounded by thick trees also; and though by no means large, it had contrived to get into a small space as many odd corners as a Chinese puzzle. The King's Highway All my interest in my Chinese puzzle had come to a wretched end. The Firefly of France For eleven years he had tried to discover the secret purpose of Austria, but, like others, he had failed; and the Austrian minister was less decipherable than the "Chinese puzzle." The Puppet Crown It was as if we had stumbled upon an ancient cupboard in some dusky corner, and rummaged out a heap of childish playthings—tin soldiers and torn story-books, jack-knives and Chinese puzzles. Eugene Pickering "Well," she replied, averting her face to hide the color that would rise at his rather abrupt and pointed address, "I'd rather be a Chinese puzzle to you than what I was." A Face Illumined Sometimes her sentences are like Chinese puzzles; but they are the kind of puzzles children make when they try to express their half-formed ideas by means of arbitrary language. The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy Cutty recognized the fact that he had become as a block in the middle of a Chinese puzzle; only Fate could move him to his appointed place. The Drums of Jeopardy However, every profession has its hair shirt and its Chinese puzzles. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Robbery and murder have degenerated into Chinese puzzles, whose solution is a pleasant irritant to the idle brain. A Book of Scoundrels “What is like a Chinese puzzle?” asked Lena Luddleford briskly; she rather prided herself on being able to grapple with the minor problems of life. The Toys of Peace, and other papers Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy He moulded it like clay, twisted and distorted it like a Chinese puzzle into any design he chose. The Iron Heel “It’s like a Chinese puzzle,” said Lady Prowche resentfully, staring at a scribbled list of names that spread over two or three loose sheets of notepaper on her writing-table. The Toys of Peace, and other papers |
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