enigma

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enigma: enigma: [16] Enigma comes, via Latin, from Greek aínigma ‘riddle, obscure statement’. This was a derivative of the verb ainíssesthai ‘talk in riddles’, which in turn came from the noun ainos ‘tale, story’. Its modern English use for ‘something puzzling’ dates from the early 17th century.
enigma (n.): 1530s, "statement which conceals a hidden meaning or known thing under obscure words or forms," earlier enigmate (mid-15c.), from Latin aenigma "riddle," from Greek ainigma (plural ainigmata) "a dark saying, riddle," from ainissesthai "speak obscurely, speak in riddles," from ainos "tale, story; saying, proverb;" according to Liddell & Scott, a poetic and Ionic word, of unknown origin. General sense in English of "anything inexplicable to an observer" is from c. 1600.

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2. Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.: 俄罗斯是被包藏在一个闷葫芦里面的神秘物体之中的谜.

4. To German intelligence, Major de Coverley was a vexatious enigma.: 对德国的情报机关来说, 德?科弗利少校是个老猜不透的谜.