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
- 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。 - 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; - 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? - It's designed to confuse or confound you.
都设计成能够迷惑或混淆你。 - Confound me! Ive lost my new pen.
妈的。我把新钢笔给掉了。 - 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。 - 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 screen readers and search engines.
屏幕阅读器和搜索引擎找不到它! - 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。