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
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- 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。
- The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists.
- 证明…有错
to prove sb/sth wrong- to confound expectations
证明期望有误 - 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。
- to confound expectations
- 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.- 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。 - 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。
- He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis...
英英释义
verb
- mistake one thing for another
- you are confusing me with the other candidate
- I mistook her for the secretary
- be confusing or perplexing to
- These questions confuse even the experts
- This question completely threw me
- This question befuddled even the teacher
双语例句
- 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; - Some scientists call these changes minor errors, but it's enough to confound the human immune system.
一些科学家将这些变化叫做“小差错”,但是它已经足够扰乱人体的免疫系统。 - Don't know is which confound you things behind my back, patted vanished, left befuddled I standing still.
不知是哪个混账东西在我背后拍了一下,消失得无影无踪了,撇下一头雾水的我呆呆地站在那里。 - But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
神却拣选了世上愚拙的,叫有智慧的羞愧。 - At times they go so far as to confound right and wrong and turn things upside down.
他们有时简直要闹到颠倒是非、混淆黑白的程度。 - 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。 - It's designed to confuse or confound you.
都设计成能够迷惑或混淆你。 - 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? - It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
将异常的东西和神秘混淆起来是十分错误的。 - Confound it, don't you know your own remains?
难道你竟连自己的身体到底在哪里都不知道吗?