confound

英 [kənˈfaʊnd]

美 [kənˈfaʊnd]

v.  使困惑惊讶; 使惊疑; 证明…有错; 击败，战胜(敌人)

过去分词：confounded　现在分词：confounding　过去式：confounded　第三人称单数：confounds　复数：confounds　

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Collins.1 / BNC.11567 / COCA.10535

习惯用语

v.

confound it/you!
• （表示愤怒）真讨厌，去你的
  used to show that you are angry about sth/with sb

牛津词典

verb

• 使困惑惊讶；使惊疑
  to confuse and surprise sb
  1. The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists.
     股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
• 证明…有错
  to prove sb/sth wrong
  1. to confound expectations
     证明期望有误
  2. She confounded her critics and proved she could do the job.
     她驳倒了批评者的看法，证明自己能够胜任那项工作。
• 击败，战胜（敌人）
  to defeat an enemy

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使困惑;使惊讶
  If someone or somethingconfoundsyou, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
  1. He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis...
     他对人质危机的冷静处理一时让批评者们惊讶不已。
  2. The choice of Governor may confound us all.
     州长的选择可能会让我们所有人感到困惑。

英英释义

verb

• mistake one thing for another
  1. you are confusing me with the other candidate
  2. I mistook her for the secretary
  Synonym:confuse
• be confusing or perplexing to
  1. These questions confuse even the experts
  2. This question completely threw me
  3. This question befuddled even the teacher
  Synonym:confusethrowfoxbefuddlefuddlebedevildiscombobulate

双语例句

• The choice of Governor may confound us all.
  州长的选择可能会让我们所有人感到困惑。
• Confound the dad-blasted water! Why didn't you tell me it was so hot?
  混蛋天打雷劈的水！为什么你刚才不告诉我水这么热呢？
• These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men;
  那些扰乱了我们，使我们疑难、困惑的问题也曾经发生在所有聪明人心上；
• Don't confound the means with the ends.
  不要混淆手段与目的。
• The children love speaking French to confound their friends.
  孩子们喜欢讲法语，让他们的朋友们不知所措。
• She thought I'd have to Confound the examiner.
  她认为我对考试官施了混淆咒。
• To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.
  以梦想代思想，便是把毒物和食物混为一谈。
• But there's a big confound, there's a big problem in studies of those kind of relationships.
  但是有一个让人混淆的问题，存在于这种关系的研究中。
• Let me tell a story of how Mara tried to confound the Buddha.
  让我说一个恶魔如何诳惑佛陀的故事吧！
• To confound two things means not to be able to tell them apart.
  混淆两件事物的意思是说没能把它们区分开来。