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

• Firstly, never underestimate the ability of markets to confound investors 'expectations.
  首先，永远不要低估市场挫败投资者预期的能力。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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？
• Let me tell a story of how Mara tried to confound the Buddha.
  让我说一个恶魔如何诳惑佛陀的故事吧！
• Confound the screen readers and search engines.
  屏幕阅读器和搜索引擎找不到它！