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
- The Japanese way of looking at things is instructive in illuminating situations which confound Westerners.
日本人观察事物的方式对于阐明引起西方人混乱的情况是有指导意义的。 - 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。 - She thought I'd have to Confound the examiner.
她认为我对考试官施了混淆咒。 - 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。 - As for that boy, I don't know where he is, confound him," says he, "nor I don't much care.
至于那孩子,我不知道他在哪里,也不想管他了,让他见鬼去吧。 - Dumfounded, to fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound.
目瞪口呆充满惊讶与不解,迷惑。 - 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。 - 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。 - Forcing the rest back to confound our foot soldiers.
使剩下的必须撤退好以混淆我们的士兵。 - Don't confound the means with the ends.
不要混淆手段与目的。