confounds

英 [kənˈfaʊndz]

美 [kənˈfaʊndz]

v.  使困惑惊讶; 使惊疑; 证明…有错; 击败，战胜(敌人)
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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。

双语例句

• Stuff happens that confounds even the most imaginative forecasts.
  有时候，事情的发展甚至会超出最富想象力的预测。
• And one man's lust these many lives confounds.
  一个人痴迷好色，害得多少人遭殃！
• A shell script encapsulates your intent, confounds errors, and saves time.
  shell脚本可以简化操作、避免错误和节省时间。
• Yet the rate the ice is vanishing confounds these climatologists'models.
  尽管如此，这些环境学家的模型还是低估了海冰融化的速率。
• Far far away, no choices passing, no time confounds me and you're still there.
  在远方，无需选择，我无遐惶恐而你依旧在那里。
• In this manner it confounds effects with causes.
  这样就把因与果混淆了。
• And the last possibility is what is known as confounding, because it confounds our ability to figure out what's going on.
  而最后一种可能，叫做混杂因素，因为它模糊我们找到真正原因的能力。
• Though it is invisible and its trail is blurry, it does have crucial influence on the realistic society. Sometimes it works silently as the cohesion of the people, sometimes it confounds right with wrong.
  它看似无形、踪迹模糊，却对现实社会有重要的影响，有时润物无声、凝聚人心，有时却众口铄金、积毁销骨。
• For all its troubles, Japan still confounds the foreign visitor expecting to find a country ravaged by the decade lost to the economic depression of the 1990s. It remains a visibly prosperous and orderly society.
  虽然问题重重，但是日本仍然让外国游客感到困惑，这些人本以为会看到一个因上世纪90年代的经济萧条而蹉跎十年，现在伤痕累累的国家。
• The election confounds the prevailing image ( always something of a distortion) of a nation described only by its arrogance and indifference.
  本次选举淡化了只能以傲慢和冷漠来形容的美国主流形象（这种形象向来存在失真）。