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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 

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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
        1. 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。
      • 证明…有错
        to prove sb/sth wrong
        1. to confound expectations
          证明期望有误
        2. 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。
      • 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.
          1. 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。
          2. 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。

        英英释义

        verb

        • mistake one thing for another
          1. you are confusing me with the other candidate
          2. I mistook her for the secretary
          Synonym:confuse
        • be confusing or perplexing to
          1. These questions confuse even the experts
          2. This question completely threw me
          3. This question befuddled even the teacher
          Synonym:confusethrowfoxbefuddlefuddlebedevildiscombobulate

        双语例句

        • 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。
        • Either this is the one piece of the puzzle that I somehow got wrong, or other factors are working to temporarily confound fundamental economics and prop up the bond market.
          无论这是一件困惑,我有点错了,还是有其他因素的工作,暂时混淆基本经济学和扶植债券市场。
        • 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 confound the means with the ends.
          不要混淆手段与目的。
        • 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。
        • 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 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。
        • Let me tell a story of how Mara tried to confound the Buddha.
          让我说一个恶魔如何诳惑佛陀的故事吧!
        • It's designed to confuse or confound you.
          都设计成能够迷惑或混淆你。
        • 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。