riddle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 谜， 谜语； 筛子，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He returned thoughtful and confused; the riddle lay heavier than ever on his soul.
-- I assure you it is a real riddle to me to me, and to others, too!'
-- But you'll admit what a riddle it must have been for us when that calm, cold, little spitfire, Aglaya (for she stood up to her mother and answered her questions with inexpress-ible contempt, and mine still more so, because, like a fool, I thought it my duty to assert myself as head of the fam-ily) when Aglaya stood up of a sudden and informed us that 'that madwoman' (strangely enough, she used exactly the same expression as you did) 'has taken it into her head to marry me to Prince Lef Nicolaievitch, and therefore is doing her best to choke Evgenie Pavlovitch off, and rid the house of him.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While we were thus engaged, I revolved in my mind a hundred different explanations of the riddle and rejected them every one.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A feeling of extraordinary elation took the place of my anger as I sat outside the window and watched these four people for the old lady came in, glancing suspiciously about her like a cat, trying to understand the riddle of my behaviour.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The meaning of this councillorship query remained, of course, a riddle to her, yet she handed him the paper without replying.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There only, in the carriage that had crossed over to the other side of the road, and was rapidly disappearing, there only could he find the solution of the riddle of his life, which had weighed so agonizingly upon him of late.
-- To this satisfaction was added the fact that an idea had just struck him for a riddle turning on his successful achievement, that when the affair was over he would ask his wife and most intimate friends.
-- He put this riddle into two or three different ways.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To me they have always been matters of riddle and ad-miration.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And Svidriga脙炉lov was a riddle 芒聙娄 He worried him, that was true, but somehow not on the same point.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma only nodded, and smiled. After a little thinking, and a very tender sigh, he added, 'Ah!it is no difficulty to see who you take after!Yourdear mother was so clever at all those things!If I had but her memory!But I can remember nothing; not even that par-ticular riddle which you have heard me mention; I can only recollect the first stanza; and there are several.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's exactly like a riddle with no answer!'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wasthis the answer to the frightening riddle of Tara's silence?
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last.
-- and he was to go before: but still was to be seen again ere I could perish How's that? There's a riddle now might baffle all the lawyers backed by the ghosts of the whole line of judges: like a hawk's beak it pecks my brain.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All that Silver said was a riddle to him, but you would never have guessed it from his tone.
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