confound

美 [kənˈfaʊnd]英 [kənˈfaʊnd]
  • vt.使困惑惊讶;击败,战胜(敌人);使惊疑;证明…有错

过去式: confounded 现在分词: confounding 过去分词: confounded 第三人称单数: confounds

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verb

1

使困惑惊讶;使惊疑
to confuse and surprise sb

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。

2

证明…有错
to prove sb/sth wrong

to confound expectations

证明期望有误

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。

3

击败,战胜(敌人)
to defeat an enemy

习语

used to show that you are angry about sth/with sb

confound

频次

  • 1
    VERB 使困惑;使惊讶
    If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.

    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。

verb

1
mistake one thing for another
you are confusing me with the other candidate
I mistook her for the secretary
Synonym: confuse
2
be confusing or perplexing to;cause to be unable to think clearly
These questions confuse even the experts
This question completely threw me
This question befuddled even the teacher
Synonym: confuse throw fox befuddle fuddle bedevil discombobulate

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  1. Confound an enemy , a rival , a critic , etc But the Rightists ' criticisms are usually malicious , because they are antagonistic .

    击败敌人、对手、批评者等.右派的批评往往是恶意的,他们怀着敌对情绪。

  2. Yet , thus far , Ireland has confounded the market doomsters by embarking on a draconian programme to tackle the debt , which includes large public sector pay cuts , and resolve the bad loan problems at its banks .

    不过,爱尔兰随后出台了非常严厉的计划来解决债务,包括大幅削减公共部门工资,以及解决国内银行的不良贷款问题。迄今,爱尔兰击败了市场末日论者的预言。

  3. 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。

  4. 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。

  5. 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。

  6. The country had confounded the pundits by electing a fourth-term Tory government

    该国国民连续四次选举托利党来执掌政府,这令专家们困惑不已。

  7. Don 't confound the means with the ends .

    不要混淆手段与目的。

  8. 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。

  9. 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。

  10. These analyses depend on a number of potentially confounding factors such as nonstomatal transpiration and temperature .

    这些分析取决于非气孔蒸腾和温度这样一些可能混淆的因素。

  11. His behaviour amazed and confounded her .

    他的所作所为让她感到既惊愕又困惑。

  12. When he returned home , he sighed : " I didn 't know until today the power of authority , which can confound right with wrong and pass off the fake as the real thing . "

    回到家里,申屠敦唉声叹气:“我今天才知道权势的威力,可以颠倒是非,以假乱真。”

  13. Adding confounding factors in the sample , and still obtained good results .

    在样本中增添干扰因素的情况下,仍能得出比较好的效果。

  14. Interaction , combined effect , confounding and its control were also discussed in this paper .

    本文还讨论了交互作用与生物学联合作用、混杂偏倚及其控制。

  15. To control confounding factors , stratified analysis for serum Cu was made .

    为排除混杂因素的影响,作者还对血清铜据不同的分层特征进行了分层分析。

  16. It remains confounding that crime would decline even in hard economic times .

    尽管如此,在经济困难的时期犯罪率竟会出现下降,这一点仍令人大惑不解。

  17. Using smoothing spline to control the confounding factors such as time , temperature .

    其中混杂因素如时间、温度用平滑样条函数进行控制。

  18. These genetic studies avoid the confounding that could affect cohort studies ;

    这些遗传性研究避免了会影响群组研究的混淆;

  19. The Relationship between Confounding , Effect Modification and Ecological Bias

    慢性病研究中的混杂效应修饰与生态偏倚的关系

  20. The bad election results confounded the previous government leaders .

    选举结果很糟,使前政府领导人惊惶失措。

  21. He had confounded those people by passing the test .

    他通过了那次测验,这倒弄得那些人惊慌失措。

  22. Strategies to control confounding factors in clinical trials

    关于新药临床试验中控制混杂因素的几点意见

  23. Population stratification is one of the major causes of confounding in association studies .

    人群分层是关联研究混杂的主要来源之一。

  24. 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。

  25. Analyses were adjusted for confounding variables using logistic regression .

    使用逻辑回归调整了混杂变量分析。

  26. The result confounded fears that India might face a period of political uncertainty .

    这样的结果令人堪忧,印度可能面临一段政治动荡时期。

  27. 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。

  28. And one man 's lust these many lives confounds .

    一个人痴迷好色,害得多少人遭殃!

  29. Confounded factors were examined by Cox regression analysis .

    用Cox回归分析混杂因素进行分析。

  30. Unfortunately , our expectations are confounded by poor design .

    不幸的是,我们的期望被糟糕的设计所混淆。

  • 习语

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

同义词

v.

conquer