puzzle
 transitive verb
 intrigar
EN 'What still puzzles me, Madame,' said Poirot, 'is how the man got into your compartment if the communicating door was bolted as you say'.
GL O que aínda me intriga, Madame --interveu Poirot--, é cómo puido o asasino entrar no seu compartimento se a porta de comunicación estaba, como vostede di, pechada.
 Fonte: ASA (4082)
desconcertar
EN That's what has been puzzling me.
GL Iso é o que me desconcertaba.
Fonte: CAR (1249)
noun
crebacabezas
EN She remembers one occasion when solving a puzzle opened up the subject of communication and aggressivity and eventually turned into a debate about police brutality.
GL Lembra unha ocasión en que, tras armar un crebacabezas, se suscitou o tema da comunicación e a agresividade, que logo desembocou nun debate verbo da violencia policial.
Fonte: C23 (1106)
enigma
EN In my previous research on children and computer toys, children described the life-like status of machines in terms of their cognitive capacities (the toys could "know" things, "solve" puzzles).
GL Os nenos interrogados nas miñas investigacións anteriores describían a condición de "case vivos" dos seus xoguetes en termos cognitivos: "sabían" cousas, "resolvían" enigmas.
Fonte: C08 (1133)
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