baffle

• vt.混乱させる；挫折させる；バッフルで制御する
• n. 困惑させる；混乱させる
• vi. 無駄にもがく

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baffle

baffle: [16] The etymology of baffle is appropriately baffling. Two main candidates have been proposed as a source. The first is the medieval Scots verb bawchill or bauchle, meaning ‘discredit publicly’. This fits in with the way baffle was first used: ‘I will baffull your good name, sound with the trumpet your dishonour, and paint your pictor with the heeles vpward, and beate it in despight of yourselfe’, Churchyardes chippes 1570.

The other strand is represented by French bafouer ‘hoodwink, deceive’, which perhaps comes from Old French beffer. This corresponds more closely to the present-day meaning of baffle, and it may well be that there are two distinct words here.

baffle (v.)

1540s, "to disgrace," perhaps a Scottish respelling of bauchle "to disgrace publicly" (especially a perjured knight), which is probably related to French bafouer "to abuse, hoodwink" (16c.), possibly from baf, a natural sound of disgust, like bah (compare German baff machen "to flabbergast"). Meaning "to bewilder, confuse" is from 1640s; that of "to defeat someone's efforts" is from 1670s. Related: Baffled; baffling.

baffle (n.)

"shielding device," 1881, from baffle (v.).

1. She had then offered him the chance to baffle his doom.

当時、彼女は彼にジンクスに打ち勝つ機会を提供していた。

2.I do not therefore baffle the reader with disputable statistics.

なので、議論に値する統計数字を持って読者を困らせたくありません。

3.He tried hard to baffle our plan.

彼は私たちの計画を妨害しようとした。

4.It has been a common practice to design a baffle system to suppress sloshing.

一般的なやり方は、揺れを防ぐためのバッフルシステムを設計することです。