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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 was to preach the doctrines, and I was to confound all opponents.
  他负责布道，我则与对手辩论。
• It's designed to confuse or confound you.
  都设计成能够迷惑或混淆你。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• Dumfounded, to fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound.
  目瞪口呆充满惊讶与不解，迷惑。