confounds

英 [kənˈfaʊndz]

美 [kənˈfaʊndz]

v.  使困惑惊讶; 使惊疑; 证明…有错; 击败，战胜(敌人)
confound的第三人称单数

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

• 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）。
• 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。
• In this manner it confounds effects with causes.
  这样就把因与果混淆了。
• And one man's lust these many lives confounds.
  一个人痴迷好色，害得多少人遭殃！
• 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。
• Therefore, the excessively loose standard in the censorship of software related business methods patent in US not only confounds abstract concepts and real techniques but also lead to the production of substantive patents of low quality.
  可见，美国对于商业方法软件专利的审查标准过于宽松混淆了抽象观念和具体技术之间的界限，也导致了大量低质量专利的产生。
• 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。
• 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。
• Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
  爱情是永恒的象征；它混淆了所有的时间概念，抹去了一切对开始的记忆和结束时的惶恐。
• 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。