perplexity
英 [pə'pleksɪtɪ]
美 [pɚ'plɛksəti]
英語の語源
- perplexity (n.)
- c. 1300, "bewilderment," from Old French perplexite "confusion, perplexity," from Late Latin perplexitatem (nominative perplexitas), from Latin perplexus "confused, involved, interwoven," from per- "completely" + plexus "entangled," past participle of plectere "to twine" (see complex (adj.)). From 1590s as "something that causes perplexity."
例文
- 1. Most of them just stared at her in perplexity .
- 彼らの多くは茫然と彼女を見つめていた。
- 2.She looked at us in some perplexity .
- 彼女は少し戸惑いながら私たちを見ていた。
- 3.He scratched his head in perplexity .
- 彼は頭皮を掻くほど困っていた。
- 4.He began counting them and then,with growing perplexity ，counted them a second time.
- 彼は数え始めて、それからもっと困惑して、もう一度数えました。
- 5.Robert outfaces his perplexity with his most peremptory air.
- ロバートはできるだけ専横な精神で窮迫を隠すようにしている。
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