``The Kellys and the Houses give general orders to their lieutenants. The lieutenants pass the orders along --and down. And so on, until all sorts of men are engaged in doing all sorts of work. Dirty, clean, criminal--all sorts. Some of these men, baffled in what they are trying to do to earn their pay--baffled by Victor Dorn--plot against him.'' Again that sad, bitter laugh. ``My dear Miss Hastings, to kill a cat there are a thousand ways besides skinning it alive.''英文原著 · 《The Conflict》
You can play or not as you like! I don't care."
A red spot burned in Monty's cheeks, and a sudden passion shook him. He threw himself upon Trent and would have struck him but that he was as a child in the younger man's grasp. Trent held him at a distance easily and without effort. "There's nothing for you to make a fuss about," he said gruffly. "I answered a plain question, that's all. I don't want to play at all. I should most likely lose, and you're much better without the brandy."
Monty was foaming with passion and baffled desire.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
The stern editor and the sombre, baffled contributor confront each other as the curtain falls.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
"I?" she said, with a slow smile, "I have never got used to anything, -- not even liv- ing." And so she baffled them all, yet won them.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"Even now, after a lapse of four years, Bianchon still quotes that speech; we have laughed over it for half an hour together. Claudine, informed of the verdict, saw in it a proof of affections; she felt sure that she was loved. In the face of her weeping family, with her husband on his knees, she was inexorable. She kept the hair. The strength that came with the belief that she was loved came to her aid, the operation succeeded perfectly. There are stirrings of the inner life which throw all the calculations of surgery into disorder and baffle the laws of medical science.英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
She was trying to look at her nature, to see its shape, its color, its expression, so that she might judge of what it was capable--whether for good or evil. The eyes into which she looked both helped her and frustrated her. They told her much--too much. And yet they baffled her. When she would know all, they seemed to substitute themselves for that which she saw through them, and she found herself noticing their size, their prominence, the exact shade of their brown hue. And the quick human creature behind them was hidden from her. But Gaspare was right. She did look ill.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Ladies and gentlemen, Honored daughters, while mr. kim, By virtue of his youth and naivete, Has fallen prey to the inexplicable need For human contact, let me step in And assure you that my research will go on uninterrupted, And that social relationships will continue to baffle And repulse me.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
It baffles me why they don't simply let some of You go so that there's money available for my research.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》