confound
confound漢語(yǔ)翻譯
confound詞型變化
confound詞意辨析
puzzle, bewilder, confuse, embarrass, perplex, baffle, confound, distract
這些動(dòng)詞均有“使困惑、迷惑、糊涂、傷腦筋”之意。puzzle: 側(cè)重使人難于理解、困惑、傷腦筋。
bewilder: 語(yǔ)氣強(qiáng)烈,指因迷不解或驚愕而慌亂,不知所措,無(wú)法清醒地思考。
confuse: 語(yǔ)氣較弱,指由于混淆、混亂而糊涂。
embarrass: 常指因處境或困難問(wèn)題而感到窘迫、局促不安或焦急而不知所措。
perplex: 除困惑外,還含焦慮或缺乏把握之意,因而難于作出決定,無(wú)從下手處理。
baffle: 語(yǔ)氣最強(qiáng),多指遇見(jiàn)奇怪情景或復(fù)雜困難情況時(shí)所產(chǎn)生的惶恐困惑心理。
confound: 常指人驚慌失措和狼狽不堪。
distract: 主要用于注意力分散、思想矛盾或過(guò)分激動(dòng)時(shí)產(chǎn)生的昏亂。
confound英語(yǔ)解釋
動(dòng)詞 confound:
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly同義詞:confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, discombobulate
- mistake one thing for another同義詞:confuse
confound例句
- I always confounded him with his twin brother.我總分不清他和他的孿生兄弟。
- Her husband's cruelty amazed and confounded her.她丈夫的殘忍讓她既驚愕又惶惑。
confound詳細(xì)解釋
con.found
v.tr.(及物動(dòng)詞)con.found.ed,con.found.ing,con.founds To cause to become confused or perplexed.See Synonyms at puzzle 使困惑:使混亂或使困惑參見(jiàn) puzzleTo fail to distinguish; mix up:混淆:不能區(qū)分; 混亂:例句:confound fiction and fact.把事實(shí)與假設(shè)混為一談
To make (something bad) worse:使混亂:使(壞事)更糟:例句:Do not confound the problem by losing your temper.別亂發(fā)脾氣再添亂子
To cause to be ashamed; abash:使窘迫:使窘困;使羞愧:例句:an invention that confounded the skeptics.使懷疑論者難堪的發(fā)明
To damn.詛咒
To frustrate:挫敗:例句:picayune demands that all but confounded the peace talks.這些瑣碎的要求只會(huì)使和平談判受挫
Archaic To bring to ruination.【古語(yǔ)】 使毀滅
來(lái)源:Middle English confounden 中古英語(yǔ) confounden from Anglo-Norman confundre 源自 英法語(yǔ) confundre from Latin cônfundere [to mix together, confuse] 源自 拉丁語(yǔ) cônfundere [混合,混淆] com- [com-] com- [前綴,表.和.] fundere [to pour] * see gheu- fundere [潑] *參見(jiàn) gheu-
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