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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - It's designed to confuse or confound you.
都设计成能够迷惑或混淆你。 - 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。 - 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 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? - Firstly, never underestimate the ability of markets to confound investors 'expectations.
首先,永远不要低估市场挫败投资者预期的能力。 - Confound the screen readers and search engines.
屏幕阅读器和搜索引擎找不到它! - 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。