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
- He was to preach the doctrines, and I was to confound all opponents.
他负责布道,我则与对手辩论。 - Don't confound the means with the ends.
不要混淆手段与目的。 - 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。 - Confound the screen readers and search engines.
屏幕阅读器和搜索引擎找不到它! - 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。 - 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。 - The functions of basophils, one of the first immune cells to be identified, continue to confound researchers.
嗜碱性细胞,第一种被发现的免疫细胞,它的功能继续令研究人员困惑。 - 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? - 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! - Dumfounded, to fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound.
目瞪口呆充满惊讶与不解,迷惑。