puzzle box
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A box that cannot be opened by the usual obvious means, and therefore challenges a person to find the correct way to open it.
— "Jest like the Injian puzzle-boxes, ain't they?" said Dan, as the one boat dropped into the other.
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A similar device or cage that can be opened by means of levers, latches, etc., used to test the learning behaviour of animals.
— That’s where Osvath’s ravens come in. His student Can Kabadayi trained the birds to open a baited puzzle box by putting a stone of particular weight and shape into a tube.
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Something that is puzzling; an enigma; (narratology, also attributive) a complex story that is gradually revealed, often driven by a central myth.
— puzzle box show
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A box containing a jigsaw puzzle.
— The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand.
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