He was puzzled
It's a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Ji é Q ǔ á oy á, which means that the sentence is difficult and unsmooth. It comes from Wen Yuan written by Song Lian of Ming Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Song Lian's Wenyuan of Ming Dynasty: "there are not many writers who steal strange things from the world, but those who are novel, who are insidious, change commonplace, and even can't be read in sentences. Moreover, they say: it's not an ancient prose to not quibble."
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble, quibble
Idiom usage
As object and attribute, it refers to the article and speech, examples and traces of their contacts, so as to find out the thoughts of Chen Gao, the second Duke of Zhou Zhao. Preface to Zhang Jiaoyu's qiangshuzhaishu by Wei Yuan of Qing Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : jié qǔ áo yá
He was puzzled
bring goodness and remove all evil. xīng lì chú hài
as if a generation had passed. huǎng rú gé shì