puzzle: implies the presenting of a problem difficult to solve: a persistent fever which ~d the doctor.     （1、谜、智力游戏a game, etc. that you have to think about carefully in order to answer，如a crossword puzzle纵横字谜，a word puzzle字谜，如she is a puzzle她是个迷  2、使迷惑不解implies something that is difficult to understand or explain，如what puzzles me is why he left the country without telling anyone令我不解的是，他为什么悄悄离开这个国家）




perplex: adds a suggestion of worry and uncertainty especially about making a necessary decision: an odd change of personality that ~ed her friends.  worry担心: 指长时间忧虑prolonged anxiety，如a businessman’s endless list of worries无数让商人担心的事     the perplexities of life人生种种困惑，如she looked perplexed她看来茫然若失


bewilder: stresses a confusion of mind that hampers clear and decisive thinking: the number of videotapes available ~s consumers.     confuse混淆suggests failure to distinguish two things that have similarities or common characteristics表示未能区分相似事物，如confused moral and political issues混淆了道德和政治问题，形容词confusing使人困惑难懂，如the instructions are confusing说明书令人困惑难懂    （如bewildered by city life面对城市生活感到迷惑  如a bewildering array of choices多得令人眼花缭乱的选择，如he had a bewildered expression on his face茫然的表情）    


distract: implies agitation or uncertainty induced by conflicting preoccupations or interests: a political scandal that ~ed the country for two years.    agitate使紧张激动to make nervous and emotionally excited            preoccupation有2个意思 1、执念念念不忘to think about something continuously如对工作爱好财富，介词用with  2、全神贯注so immersed as to ignore other things，如she spoke slowly in a state of preoccupation她说话慢，显得全神贯注          （又如you sneak into his room while I distract him我引开他，你悄悄进他房间，如the local story distracted attention from news of the war本地新闻转移了对战争的注意力，如it's hard to work with so many distrations有这么多分心的事难以工作）


nonplus: implies a bafflement that causes complete blankness of mind: she was utterly ~ed by the abrupt change in plans.    


confound: implies temporary mental paralysis caused by astonishment or profound abasement: tragic news that ~ed us all.        abase贬低降低身份价值，confound主要表示惊讶并且困惑，abase没有译出        如the sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解，引申为"证明有误"，如he confounded expectations/his opponents证明了对他的预期有误/驳倒了对手


dumbfound: suggests an intense but momentary confounding or astounding: ~ed by her rejection of his marriage proposal.        本例她拒绝了他的求婚，让他(惊讶困窘地)目瞪口呆，又如we were dumbfounded by what we saw我们所见令人目瞪口呆          momentary和temporary完全同义，暂时的


puzzle使费解: 指造成或提出难题，perplex困惑: 增加了担心、不确定的意思，bewilder迷惑: 强调造成混淆进而迷惑，distract纷扰分心: 指事务冲突致人紧张不安，nonplus困惑: 指致人头脑空白的困惑，confound惊讶困惑:指致人思维瘫痪，dumbfound惊讶困窘: 让人目瞪口呆，形容极度惊讶或困窘



记忆方法: 1) 首字母PDPDBNC想成难判断，判断不出<==让人困惑
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         3）困惑的意思是使人思维迷惑困顿mean to baffle and disturb mentally.首字母PDPDBNC想成难判断，判断不出<==让人困惑      (baffle迷惑困惑=to puzzle or confuse；disturb搅扰不安implies interference with one's mental processes or emotional balance by worry, perplexity, or fear，如the puzzling discrepancy disturbed me难以解释的差别令我不安，例如说某某状况disturbing令人不安 )