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
- 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。 - Don't confound the means with the ends.
不要混淆手段与目的。 - Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
你们侮辱我,已有十次之多,苛待我却不知羞愧。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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; - To confound two things means not to be able to tell them apart.
混淆两件事物的意思是说没能把它们区分开来。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。