Mystery

(noun.) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; 'how it got out is a mystery'; 'it remains one of nature's secrets'.

(noun.) a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie.

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• An idea is by its very nature weaker and fainter than an impression; but being in every other respect the same, cannot imply any very great mystery. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Not to get up a mystery with these people, I resolved to announce in the morning that my uncle had unexpectedly come from the country. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I shook her loose--the mystery! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• To be man was as nothing compared to the possibilities of the creative mystery. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Can you not clear up the last point in this mystery, and tell us the reasons for your action? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• An instant later the mystery was explained. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I have tamed that savage stenographic mystery. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The way to the Secret lay through the mystery, hitherto impenetrable to all of us, of the woman in white. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• No one could remember it without gaining faith in the mystery, without the soul's warming with new, deep life-truSt. And Gerald! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Why a thousand people are not run over and crippled every day is a mystery that no man can solve. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It's a blessed mystery to me, cried Pycroft, scratching his head. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• We sent him to the captain, and he explained to him the mystery of ship time and set his troubled mind at rest. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Next day the mystery of the guineas was explained. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Do you see any prospect of solving this mystery, Mr. Holmes? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Talking of mysteries, by-the-bye, says Mr. Franklin, dropping his voice, I have another word to say to you before you go to the stables. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Gerald was left behind like a postulant in the ante-room of this temple of mysteries, this woman. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She was jealous of him, but there was another and graver source of trouble in her passion for religious mysteries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• They were implicated with each other in abhorrent mysteries. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Suddenly his strange, strained attention gave way, he could not attend to these mysteries any more. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They told me that you were fond of queer mysteries, and I don't think you can find a queerer one than that. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• No human intelligence could have read the mysteries of his mind, in the scared blank wonder of his face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He once lived wi' a Scotchman that tached him the mysteries o' that craft, as they say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Not to intrude on the sacred mysteries of medicine, he took it, now (with the jury droop and persuasive eye-glass), that this was Merdle's case? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It desc ribes itself as Instructions for arriving at the knowledge of all things, and of things obscure, and of all mysteries. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He spoke very handsomely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,--using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to repeat. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But my mind had been running on Grace Poole--that living enigma, that mystery of mysteries, as I considered her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The suggestion of primitive art was their refuge, and the inner mysteries of sensation their object of worship. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• As to his shirt-collar, and his coat-collar, they were perplexing to reflect upon,--insoluble mysteries both. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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