confounds

英 [kənˈfaʊndz]

美 [kənˈfaʊndz]

v.  使困惑惊讶; 使惊疑; 证明…有错; 击败，战胜(敌人)
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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。

双语例句

• In this manner it confounds effects with causes.
  这样就把因与果混淆了。
• And the last possibility is what is known as confounding, because it confounds our ability to figure out what's going on.
  而最后一种可能，叫做混杂因素，因为它模糊我们找到真正原因的能力。
• Though it is invisible and its trail is blurry, it does have crucial influence on the realistic society. Sometimes it works silently as the cohesion of the people, sometimes it confounds right with wrong.
  它看似无形、踪迹模糊，却对现实社会有重要的影响，有时润物无声、凝聚人心，有时却众口铄金、积毁销骨。
• For all its troubles, Japan still confounds the foreign visitor expecting to find a country ravaged by the decade lost to the economic depression of the 1990s. It remains a visibly prosperous and orderly society.
  虽然问题重重，但是日本仍然让外国游客感到困惑，这些人本以为会看到一个因上世纪90年代的经济萧条而蹉跎十年，现在伤痕累累的国家。
• Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
  爱情是永恒的象征；它混淆了所有的时间概念，抹去了一切对开始的记忆和结束时的惶恐。
• The experience of the smaller investment banks confounds predictions that they would benefit from the tighter regulation of larger rivals since the Dodd-Frank reforms of 2010.
  小型投资银行的经营状况使分析人士感到困惑，因为根据预计，它们将获益于2010年多德-弗兰克（Dodd-Frank）改革给较大竞争对手带来的更严格监管。
• Yet the rate the ice is vanishing confounds these climatologists'models.
  尽管如此，这些环境学家的模型还是低估了海冰融化的速率。
• Therefore, the excessively loose standard in the censorship of software related business methods patent in US not only confounds abstract concepts and real techniques but also lead to the production of substantive patents of low quality.
  可见，美国对于商业方法软件专利的审查标准过于宽松混淆了抽象观念和具体技术之间的界限，也导致了大量低质量专利的产生。
• A shell script encapsulates your intent, confounds errors, and saves time.
  shell脚本可以简化操作、避免错误和节省时间。
• And one man's lust these many lives confounds.
  一个人痴迷好色，害得多少人遭殃！