conundrum

Not buying clothes would seem to break the fundamental law of fashion, but happily there is a stylish way around the conundrum.

不买衣服，这看起来好像打破了时尚大法，但是幸运地是，采用一种时尚的方式就可以解决这个难题。

This apparent conundrum, Ahmed explains, is the result of a combination of radical ideology and vast amounts of money.

这个显而易见的难题，在Ahmed看来，是因为激进的意识形态和巨额资金综合作用的结果。

This seems to be a real conundrum, even for Austrians and other libertarians.

这看起来确实是一个谜团，特别是对于包括奥地利学派在内的自由主义者来说。

Trying to solve the conundrum of Israel and Palestine was by far the biggest burden of his years on the throne.

侯赛因统治至今最大得负担就是努力解决以色列与巴勒斯坦的难题。

But it took a Hungarian politician to turn a logical conundrum into a political strategy.

不过这句话却让一位匈牙利政治家把一句逻辑难题变成了一个政治策略。

How life had first made proteins without enzymes, which presumably had to be proteins themselves, had been a chicken-and-egg conundrum.

生命最初如何在没有酶（可能是蛋白质本身）的情况下合成蛋白质？这是个鸡与蛋谁先产生的难题。

The electric vehicle's range is a conundrum that the best brains are still trying to unravel.

电动汽车的行驶里程仍然是一个让人大伤脑筋的问题，尚需诸多业内精英努力解决。

Economists said the surge in inflation also presented Asian central bankers with a conundrum that went against their instincts.

经济学家表示，通胀飙升还给亚洲各国央行官员带来了一个与其本能相悖的难题。

The birth of our genus has long been a conundrum for paleoanthropologists, to say the least.

至少可以说，长期以来，人类的诞生对古人类学家来说一直是一道谜。

It's been a bit of a conundrum for astrophysicists.

对天体物理学家们来说，这是一个难题。

The chairman of the Fed, Alan Greenspan, told Congress in February 2005 that this was a "conundrum" .

时任联储局主席格林斯潘在2005年2月向国会表示这是一个“棘手难题”。

However, for China the least problematic solution to its oil conundrum is to look directly west.

然而，对于中国来说，解决其能源难题最简单易行的方法是向“西”看。

It's an important step in uncovering the exact length of a Saturnian day, a conundrum that has perplexed planetary researchers for years.

此项发现对于定义土星确切时长，这一困扰行星科学研究者们长达数年的难题具有重要意义。

Many would assert that this tickling conundrum is the perfect evidence that humor is utterly relative.

许多人会认为发痒的秘密很好地证明了幽默是具有强烈的相对性的。

For a nation with daunting labour-absorption imperatives, labour-saving growth presents China with a major conundrum.

对于一个迫切需要消化劳动力的国家，劳动节约型的增长给中国呈现了一个巨大的难题。

This year, Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, referred to the low level of bond yields as a "conundrum" .

今年，美联储主席艾伦·格林斯潘（AlanGreenspan）将低水平的债券收益率称为一个“谜团”（conundrum）。

The bigger conundrum is that, just as the banks appear to have suddenly found religion, consumers also are unhelpfully doing the same.

更大的难题是，正如银行似乎突然也严谨起来了一样，消费者也同样谨慎起来。

But offering Utah another seat (which it could lose after the next census) does not resolve the constitutional conundrum.

但赋予犹他州一个议席（该议席可能在下次人口调查后被丢掉）并不能解决宪法上的困局。

Manywould assert that this tickling conundrum is the perfect evidence that humor is utterly relative.

许多人声称这一胳肢谜题正是幽默是完全相对的完美证据。

This conundrum is not a new one for Judge Rakoff and one he raised in an SEC settlement case two years ago involving Bank of America (BAC).

这样有悖常理的事情拉科夫法官可不是头一遭碰上了，两年前美国银行（BankofAmerica）的SEC和解案也是这样。