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
- Growth miracles such as that confound cultural pessimism.
这样的增长奇迹是文化悲观主义所不能解释的。 - 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。 - 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? - 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。 - She thought I'd have to Confound the examiner.
她认为我对考试官施了混淆咒。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。