confound
vt. 使混淆；挫败；讨厌；使混乱
vt.
使混淆，使混乱；挫败；诅咒；
变形
过去式：confounded过去分词：confounded现在分词：confounding第三人称单数：confounds
英英释义
confound[ kən'faund ]
v.
be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
同义词：confusethrowfoxbefuddlefuddlebedevildiscombobulate
mistake one thing for another
同义词：confuse
同近义词辨析
puzzle, confound, bewilder, perplex, confuse, distract, embarrass, baffle这组词都有“使困惑、迷惑、糊涂、伤脑筋”的意思，其区别是：
puzzle侧重使人难于理解、困惑、伤脑筋。
confound常指人惊慌失措和狼狈不堪。
bewilder语气强烈，指因迷不解或惊愕而慌乱，不知所措，无法清醒地思考。
perplex除困惑外，还含焦虑或缺乏把握之意，因而难于作出决定，无从下手处理。
confuse语气较弱，指由于混淆、混乱而糊涂。
distract主要用于注意力分散、思想矛盾或过分激动时产生的昏乱。
embarrass常指因处境或困难问题而感到窘迫、局促不安或焦急而不知所措。
baffle语气最强，多指遇见奇怪情景或复杂困难情况时所产生的惶恐困惑心理。
双语例句
用作及物动词(vt.)
Don't confound the means with the ends.
不要把手段和目的混淆起来。
To confound two things means not to be able to tell them apart.
混淆两件事物的意思是说没能把它们区分开来。
权威例句
Genetic variation may confound analysis of CRISPR-Cas9 off-target mutationsDo respiratory epidemics confound the association between air pollution and daily deaths?
Distance‐based multivariate analyses confound location and dispersion effects
Measurement of pain: patient preference does not confound pain measurement.
Traditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural Paraguay
Variability of cortisol assays can confound the diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency in the critically ill population
Do Reverse-Worded Items Confound Measures in Cross-Cultural Consumer Research? The Case of the Material Values Scale | Journal of Co...
An improved framework for confound regression and filtering for control of motion artifact in the preprocessing of resting-state fun...
Measuring rDNA diversity in eukaryotic microbial systems: how intragenomic variation, pseudogenes, and PCR artifacts confound biodiv...
Satterthwaite TD, Elliott MA, Gerraty RT, Ruparel K, Loughead J, Calkins ME et al. An improved framework for confound regression and...
confound
confound: [13] Latin confundere literally meant ‘pour together’; it was a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and fundere ‘pour’ (source of English found ‘melt’ and fuse). This sense was later extended figuratively to ‘mix up, fail to distinguish’, a meaning which passed via Old French confondre into English. Meanwhile, the Latin verb’s past participle, confusus, came to be used as an adjective; in Old French this became confus, which English acquired in the 14th century as confuse.This was soon assimilated to the normal pattern of English past participial adjectives as confused, from which the new verb confuse, was coined.=> confuse, found, fuse
confound (v.)
c. 1300, "make uneasy, abash," from Anglo-French confoundre, Old French confondre (12c.) "crush, ruin, disgrace, throw into disorder," from Latin confundere "to confuse," literally "to pour together, mix, mingle," from com- "together" (see com-) + fundere "to pour" (see found (v.2)). The figurative sense of "confuse, fail to distinguish, mix up" emerged in Latin, passed into French and thence into Middle English, where it is mostly found in Scripture; the sense of "destroy utterly" is recorded in English from c. 1300. Meaning "perplex" is late 14c. The Latin past participle confusus, meanwhile, became confused (q.v.).
1. confound right and wrong
混淆是非
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
2. To confound things on others
张冠李戴
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 习语
3. Confound [God confound] it [you] !
畜生! 混蛋! 该死的!
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. Confound it!
畜生！混蛋！该死的！
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
5. To confound;abash.
使挫折，使窘迫
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
6. To confound right and wrong
是非颠倒
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 习语
7. The old know what they want;the young are sad and bewildered(Logan Pearsall Smith.To confound is to bewilder
Confound是指某人迷惑和惊讶以至呆住或失去了镇静：
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
8. Confound those interfering Neubergers!
爱管闲事的纽伯格夫妇真讨厌！
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
9. Confound fiction and fact.
把事实与假设混为一谈
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
10. "Confound you and your punctuality!"
“当然
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
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