英汉词典

confound 基本解释

• vt. 使混淆；挫败；讨厌；使混乱

confound 词态变化

confound 中文词源

con-, 强调。-found, 流，倾泻，词源同confuse, foundry. 即流到一起的，难以区别而困惑的。

confound 英文词源

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.).

confound 英文释义

1. 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"

2. mistake one thing for another;

"you are confusing me with the other candidate"

"I mistook her for the secretary"

confound 同义词解析

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。

confound 双语例句

1. 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。

来自柯林斯例句

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

不要使手段与目的混淆不清.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3. Are you going to lie there all day , confound it, you sow! "

妈的,还躺着, 猪猡 ”!

来自汉英文学 - 现代散文

4. Confound him , what does he mean by dogging me?

该死的家伙, 他干吗老盯住我 呢 ?

来自辞典例句

5. Confound [ God confound ] it [ you ] !

畜生!混蛋!该死的!

来自辞典例句

confound 实用场景例句

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。

牛津词典

to confound expectations

证明期望有误

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

We must be careful not to confound isolated members of a body with the body itself.

我们必须当心不要混淆一个群体的单个成员和这个群体本身的区别.

期刊摘选

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.

辞典例句

Do not confound the means with the ends.

不要混淆手段和目的.

期刊摘选

Why don't you confound your critics and write something completely different?

那你何不让你的批评者们大吃一惊,写些完全不同的东西?

电影对白

Specious words confound virtue. Want of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans.

巧言乱德. 小不忍,则乱大谋.

期刊摘选

Potter : Oh , confound it, man, are you afraid of success?

波特: 去它的吧, 老兄, 难道你害怕成功 吗 ?

期刊摘选

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

把奇怪和神秘混为一谈,这是错误的.

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Confound him , what does he mean by dogging me?

该死的家伙, 他干吗老盯住我 呢 ?

辞典例句

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!

期刊摘选

Don't let the nameless fear confuse the eye confound our strong belief of future.

不要让那些莫名的恐惧迷惑了我们的双眼,影响了我们对未来的信念.

期刊摘选

Markets can confound traders.

市场会挫败交易者.

期刊摘选

Confound [ God confound ] it [ you ] !

畜生!混蛋!该死的!

辞典例句

Paper institute character, be not people place desire character, confound right and wrong, and white confuse.

报纸所言, 非人民所欲言, 是非颠倒, 黑白淆乱.

期刊摘选

Confound those interfering Neubergers!

爱管闲事的纽伯格夫妇真讨厌!

期刊摘选

At times they far as to confound 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.

期刊摘选

Don't confound the means with the end.

不要把手段与目的混为一谈.

辞典例句

He was to preach the doctrines, and I was to confound all opponents.

他负责布道, 我则与对手辩论.

辞典例句

Don't confound the means with the ends.

不要使手段与目的混淆不清.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The Japanese way of looking at things is instructive in illuminating situations which confound Westerners.

日本人观察事物的方式对于阐明引起西方人混乱的情况是有指导意义的.

辞典例句

Don't confound right with wrong!

不要混淆是非!

辞典例句

Don't confound public affairs with private ones.

不要把公事与私事混为一谈.

期刊摘选

And Time that gave , doth now his confound.

时光又撕毁了它从前的赠品.

期刊摘选

Confound you, what do you mean?

妈的!你这是什么意思?

辞典例句