All comers to the Sphinx were asked a riddle, and failure to solve it meant death.

所有来到斯芬克斯面前的人都被问了一个谜语，解答不了就意味着死亡。

Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the riddle of the birth of the universe.

科学家们昨天宣布已经解开了宇宙诞生之谜。

Can you answer this riddle?

你能猜出这个谜语吗？

This is the riddle you have to solve.

这是你必须要解决的谜题。

Once a year, the king made a new riddle.

国王每年都会编一个新的谜语。

They had to do with the riddle of his existence.

他们必须解开他的存在之谜。

Suddenly you fancy you see the answer to the riddle.

突然间你设想自己看到了谜底。

Everyone was puzzled about how to solve this new riddle.

每个人都为如何解开这个新谜语感到困惑。

He gave a prize to the person who could solve the riddle.

他给能解开这个谜的人一个奖品。

One year the king made a new riddle that puzzled everyone.

有一年，国王出了一个新的谜语，迷惑了所有人。

"I will give a prize to the person who can solve my riddle," the king said.

国王说：“谁能猜中我的谜语，我就给谁一份奖励。”

Generally, a lantern riddle consists of three parts, namely the riddle, the hint and the answer.

灯谜通常由三部分组成，即谜面、谜目和谜底。

Nature is indeed like a riddle, some areas of which are beyond the reach of science and technology, at least in the foreseeable future.

大自然确实像一个谜，其中一些领域是科学技术无法触及的，至少在可预见的未来是这样。

The answer to this riddle lies in the metabolic activity of early photosynthetic life-forms that slowly but surely transformed the chemical composition of Earth's atmosphere.

这个谜题的答案在于早期光合生命形式的新陈代谢活动，这种活动缓慢但一定改变了地球大气的化学成分。

Countless people have had a stab at solving the riddle.

无数人试图解开这个谜。

"There is a lot that goes into making food", Wagner Riddle says.

瓦格纳·里德尔说：“制作食物需要做很多事情。”

"Number one is to not waste food," Wagner Riddle, a scientist from Canada, said.

“首先是不要浪费食物。”加拿大科学家瓦格纳·里德尔说。

Have you guessed the riddle yet?

你猜出那个谜语了吗？

My discovery of Mary Jackson was, as a matter of fact, a gift from a friend; years ago I was given a copy of Tell Me A Riddle.

事实上，我发现玛丽·杰克逊是因为一位朋友送给我的礼物；几年前，有人给了我一本《告诉我一个谜语》。

Sounds like a childhood riddle.

听起来像是儿时的谜语。

The riddle was at last unriddled.

这个谜语终于得到了解答。

You answer the riddle,the poem riddle.

回答这个谜语，诗中的谜语。

This is a big riddle.

这是一个重大的谜团。

Life is a maze and love is a riddle.

生活是座迷宫爱是个谜。

He did read the riddle of the heavens.

他的确解读了苍穹之谜。

This riddle about the inversion of the universe.

这一宇宙万物颠倒之谜。

"Tell us your riddle," they said. "Let's hear it."

他们说：“请将谜语说给我们听。”

Kiddies, let's guess a riddle before our class, OK?

在上课之前，小朋友们，我们猜个谜语，好不好？