English-Portuguese translations for puzzle

enigmaIsto para mim é um grande enigma. I regard this as a great puzzle. Os êxitos da União Europeia são um enigma e, acima de tudo, a UE constitui um obstáculo à maximização do poder da Rússia. Its success is a puzzle and, above all, it is an obstacle to the maximisation of Russia's power. Para mim - acontece-me o mesmo que à deputada Oomen-Ruijten - foram uma confusão, por vezes, um enigma.Personally - and here I am in the same boat as Mrs Oomen-Ruijten - I have found them rather confusing, and quite often simply a puzzle.
charada

confundir
desafio
desconcertar
intrigarQueria também dirigir ao Senhor Melchior Wathelet duas questões bastante importantes sobre assuntos que me continuam a intrigar. I would also like to ask Mr Wathelet two rather important questions on subjects that continue to puzzle me.

Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of
A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete
A jigsaw puzzle
Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction
To perplex (someone
To think long and carefully, in bewilderment
To make intricate; to entangle

Where he went after he left the house is a puzzle.
to be in a puzzle
We puzzled over the curious-shaped lock, but were unable to discover how the key should be inserted.

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