That delights logophiles but befuddles dictionary-makers, who must keep a record of the ever-expanding lexicon.

这让词汇爱好者感到高兴，但却让词典编纂者感到困惑，他们必须记录不断扩大词汇表。

The one that sort of befuddles me is human purpose.

最让我感到困惑是人类目。

Befuddled by buying running shoes for the first time?

第一次买跑鞋很困惑？

One is to befuddle them with double discounting.

比如利用二次折扣来迷惑他们。

When the radar at Puerto Rico's Harecibo Observatory honed in on Mercury's poles, it picked up something that left researchers befuddled.

当位于波多黎各Harecibo文台雷达聚焦于水星极地收集到信息迷惑了研究人员。

Previous generations of producers were befuddled by youngsters' games; today's moguls grew up playing them.

上一代制作人对年轻人游戏感到困惑，大亨则是玩着这些游戏长大。

He had said he was back on duty, and was too befuddled to work out the time difference.

他说他回来值班了，且太糊涂了， 无法算出时差。

When I would say, do you know what's going to happen on the 12th of June, he was befuddled.

当我说“你知道 6 月 12 日会发吗”时，他很困惑。

They also finished off the last of the old-line Federalists, befuddled the discredited National Republicans, and christened their party anew.

他们还完成了最后一批老派联邦党人工作, 迷惑了声名狼藉全国共和党人, 并重新命名了他们政党。

Even if he knew it by heart, a man in my disturbed, befuddled condition couldn't have quoted a syllable of his own country's history.

就算是一个很熟悉自己本国历史人，但在我所处情况中，心中恍饱，头脑昏乱，他也不可能说出一句话来。

What saves them is that politicians are not known for humor and are therefore even more befuddled by it than the general public.

政客们并不以幽默见长， 因此他们在幽默面前比普通大众更加困惑不解。 然，幽默用途远不止于时事讽刺。 虽然它们不那紧迫， 却能帮助我们审视那些更为古老心灵、家庭、工作等问题， 以及从早到晚所遭遇各种挫折。

The contrasting fortunes of these two chains may befuddle those looking to understand the state of America's consumers, especially when other industries are also sending mixed messages.

这两家连锁店截然不同命运可能会让那些希望了解美国消费者状况人感到困惑，尤其是当其他行业也发出了不同信息时。

Some squeezed, some tugged, some jabbed at his crotch, while others pulled at his feet, tore his hair, gouged at his eyes, tweaked his nose, and generally befuddled him.

有人挤压，有人拉扯，有人戳他胯部，有人拉他脚，撕扯他头发，挖他眼睛，扭捏他鼻子，总之让他迷惑不解。

I had realized pretty quickly that I was essentially being instructed to befuddle old people into switching energy suppliers, and told Syed, my personal 'adviser' that I couldn't do it.

我很快意识到我实际上是被指示要迷惑老年人转换能源供应商，并告诉赛义德，我私人“顾问”我做不到。

This befuddles advertisers who would aim to sell to the entire Spanish-speaking world, like the shampoo-maker who discovered that cabello chino (“Chinese hair”) means curly hair in almost all Latin America save Ecuador, where it means straight hair.

这使得瞄准整个西班牙语世界行销广告商感到困惑，如洗发水产商发现“cabello chino”（中国式发型）在几乎全部拉美是指卷发，但在厄瓜多尔，这个词是指直发。

Hagrid almost had to drag Harry away from Curses and Counter-curses (Bewitch Your Friends and Befuddle Your Enemies with the Latest Revenges: Hair Loss, Jelly-Legs, Tongue-Tying and Much, Much More) by Professor Vindictus Viridian.

即使从来不读书达力，要是有幸能得到其中一两本，也定会欣喜若狂。哈利拿起一本温迪克教授著《魔咒与破解魔咒》(用最新复仇术捉弄你朋友，蛊惑你敌人：脱发、打折腿、绑舌头及其他许许多多手法)，海格好不容易才把哈利从这本书前拖开。

And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.

就是这地人，也因酒摇摇晃晃，因浓酒东倒西歪。祭司和先知因浓酒摇摇晃晃，被酒所困，因浓酒东倒西歪。他们错解默示，谬行审判。