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Today's expression is really good.

It's very short.

Listen carefully.

I'm stumped. I'm Listen carefully. I'm stumped. I am the American pronunciation. We just usually say um stumped. Stumped. S-T-U-M-P-E-D. I'm stumped. I'm stumped. Now this expression means I have no idea. It means actually that you

cannot solve the problem. You do not know how to solve the problem. Somebody gave you a problem. Maybe it was a math

problem, a science problem, maybe it was a construction problem, a computer programming problem,

an English problem, but you don't know the answer. You don't know how to solve the answer.

In this case, you can say, ooh, I'm stumped. I don't know. I'll tell you why we use the word

stump, at least my guess, after you check out the conversation.

Did you solve the math problem?

No, I'm stumped.

Ha! I got it in two minutes.

Well, you must be a genius.

Yeah, you know, math is not my friend.

I was never a genius in math.

And some guys, they're so fast in solving the math problems.

They must be geniuses.

Anybody who is really good at math, if you ask me, they're a genius. I'm stumped. I mean,

if it's a difficult math problem, do not come to me. I'll be wasting your time. The only thing I will

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