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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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

• Confound the screen readers and search engines.
  屏幕阅读器和搜索引擎找不到它！
• As for that boy, I don't know where he is, confound him," says he, "nor I don't much care.
  至于那孩子，我不知道他在哪里，也不想管他了，让他见鬼去吧。
• The children love speaking French to confound their friends.
  孩子们喜欢讲法语，让他们的朋友们不知所措。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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 was to preach the doctrines, and I was to confound all opponents.
  他负责布道，我则与对手辩论。
• Don't know is which confound you things behind my back, patted vanished, left befuddled I standing still.
  不知是哪个混账东西在我背后拍了一下，消失得无影无踪了，撇下一头雾水的我呆呆地站在那里。
• 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。