idiomslang(alsowhat beats me)said when you do notunderstandasituationor someone'sbehaviour:我不理解,我不明白Itbeatsme how she got thejob.我不明白她是怎么得到这份工作的。Whatbeatsme is why shestayswith him.我不理解她为什么跟他在一起。SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesDifficult to understand
abstruse
ambiguity
ambiguous
ambiguously
antinomy
esoteric
fathomless
garble
get it into your thick headidiom
impalpable
impenetrable
indiscernible
lost
non-intuitive
obscurely
obscurity
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wasted onsomeoneidiom
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(it) beats me| American Dictionary
(it) beats me
idiomslangI do notknow, or I do notunderstand:"Anyideawhowonthepennantlastyear?" "Beats me."