If your mind boggles, you cannot quite hold the idea — it is too big, too strange, or too much to accept. The set phrase is “the mind boggles.” People also turn it round: “It boggles the mind.” You say it when you want to show you are amazed, not when you are quietly unsure.

If your mind boggles如果你的mind boggles（腦子轉不過來）, you cannot quite hold the idea你沒辦法完全接受這個想法 — it is too big, too strange, or too much to accept因為它太大、太奇怪，或多到讓人無法接受。The set phrase is "the mind boggles."固定用語是『the mind boggles』。People also turn it round大家也會反過來說: "It boggles the mind."『It boggles the mind.』You say it when you want to show you are amazed你會在想表現出驚訝時這樣說, not when you are quietly unsure而不是在你只是心裡有點不確定的時候。

The same verb can mean you stop short: if you boggle at a price, you hesitate because it shocks you. Long ago, a horse that jumped in fright was said to boggle.

The same verb can mean you stop short同一個動詞也可以表示你猶豫停下來: if you boggle at a price如果你boggle at a price（對一個價格咋舌）, you hesitate because it shocks you你會因為被嚇到而遲疑。Long ago, a horse that jumped in fright was said to boggle很久以前，一匹被嚇得跳起來的馬也被說成boggle。

The word is a variation of bogle, an old word for a goblin or a scare-spirit, and it may be a cousin of bug in the “something that scares you” sense — though that last link is only a maybe. There is a word-game called Boggle; that is a brand name with the same spelling, not a new sense of this verb.

The word is a variation of bogle這個字是bogle的變體, an old word for a goblin or a scare-spiritbogle是個舊字，指妖怪或會嚇人的鬼靈, and it may be a cousin of bug in the "something that scares you" sense而且它可能跟『會嚇到你的東西』這個意思的bug是同源詞 — though that last link is only a maybe——不過這最後一個關聯只是猜測。There is a word-game called Boggle有一款叫Boggle的文字遊戲; that is a brand name with the same spelling那是一個拼法相同的品牌名稱, not a new sense of this verb不是這個動詞的新意思。