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

• 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；
• 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。
• 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？
• But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
  神却拣选了世上愚拙的，叫有智慧的羞愧。
• Dumfounded, to fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound.
  目瞪口呆充满惊讶与不解，迷惑。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。