confound

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英 [kənˈfaʊnd]

美 [kənˈfaʊnd, kɑn-]

是什么意思

vt.

使混淆，使混乱；挫败；诅咒；

变形

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

英英释义

confound[ kən'faund ]

v.
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
  同义词：confusethrowfoxbefuddlefuddlebedevildiscombobulate
- mistake one thing for another
  同义词：confuse

学习怎么用

同近义词辨析

puzzle, confound, bewilder, perplex, confuse, distract, embarrass, baffle

这组词都有“使困惑、迷惑、糊涂、伤脑筋”的意思，其区别是：

puzzle侧重使人难于理解、困惑、伤脑筋。

confound常指人惊慌失措和狼狈不堪。

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。

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。

confuse语气较弱，指由于混淆、混乱而糊涂。

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。

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。

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。

双语例句

用作及物动词(vt.)

Don't confound the means with the ends.
不要把手段和目的混淆起来。
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。

权威例句

Genetic variation may confound analysis of CRISPR-Cas9 off-target mutations
Do respiratory epidemics confound the association between air pollution and daily deaths?
Distance‐based multivariate analyses confound location and dispersion effects
Measurement of pain: patient preference does not confound pain measurement.
Traditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural Paraguay
Variability of cortisol assays can confound the diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency in the critically ill population
Do Reverse-Worded Items Confound Measures in Cross-Cultural Consumer Research? The Case of the Material Values Scale | Journal of Co...
An improved framework for confound regression and filtering for control of motion artifact in the preprocessing of resting-state fun...
Measuring rDNA diversity in eukaryotic microbial systems: how intragenomic variation, pseudogenes, and PCR artifacts confound biodiv...
Satterthwaite TD, Elliott MA, Gerraty RT, Ruparel K, Loughead J, Calkins ME et al. An improved framework for confound regression and...

同义词

defeat cloud

同根词

confounding confoundedly confounded confound

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