confound

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汉语翻译

vt. 使混淆, 使狼狈, 挫败

词型变化:

名词:confounder 动词过去式:confounded 过去分词:confounded 现在分词:confounding 第三人称单数:confounds 

词意辨析:

puzzle, bewilder, confuse, embarrass, perplex, baffle, confound, distract
这些动词均有“使困惑、迷惑、糊涂、伤脑筋”之意。
puzzle: 侧重使人难于理解、困惑、伤脑筋。
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。
confuse: 语气较弱,指由于混淆、混乱而糊涂。
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。
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。
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。
confound: 常指人惊慌失措和狼狈不堪。
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。

英语解释:

动词 confound:

  1. be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
    同义词:confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, discombobulate
  2. mistake one thing for another
    同义词:confuse

例句:

  1. I always confounded him with his twin brother.
    我总分不清他和他的孪生兄弟。
  2. Her husband's cruelty amazed and confounded her.
    她丈夫的残忍让她既惊愕又惶惑。

详细解释:


con.found

v.tr.(及物动词)
con.found.ed,con.found.ing,con.founds
To cause to become confused or perplexed.See Synonyms at puzzle
使困惑:使混乱或使困惑参见 puzzle
To fail to distinguish; mix up:
混淆:不能区分; 混乱:
例句:
confound fiction and fact.
把事实与假设混为一谈

To make (something bad) worse:
使混乱:使(坏事)更糟:
例句:
Do not confound the problem by losing your temper.
别乱发脾气再添乱子

To cause to be ashamed; abash:
使窘迫:使窘困;使羞愧:
例句:
an invention that confounded the skeptics.
使怀疑论者难堪的发明

To damn.
诅咒


To frustrate:
挫败:
例句:
picayune demands that all but confounded the peace talks.
这些琐碎的要求只会使和平谈判受挫

Archaic To bring to ruination.
【古语】 使毁灭

来源:
Middle English confounden
中古英语 confounden
from Anglo-Norman confundre
源自 英法语 confundre
from Latin nfundere [to mix together, confuse]
源自 拉丁语 nfundere [混合,混淆]
com- [com-]
com- [前缀,表.和.]
fundere [to pour] * see gheu-
fundere [泼] *参见 gheu-

【引伸】
confound.er
n.(名词)

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