confound

verb

1. 使困惑惊讶；使惊疑
   to confuse and surprise sb
   1. 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。
2. 证明…有错
   to prove sb/sth wrong
   1. to confound expectations
      证明期望有误
   2. 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。
3. 击败，战胜（敌人）
   to defeat an enemy

1. VERB 使困惑;使惊讶
   If someone or something confounds you, 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。

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。
3. Don't confound the means with the ends.
   不要混淆手段与目的。
4. At times they go so far as to confound right 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。
5. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.
   以梦想代思想，便是把毒物和食物混为一谈。
6. Confound the screen readers and search engines.
   屏幕阅读器和搜索引擎找不到它！
7. Forcing the rest back to confound our foot soldiers.
   使剩下的必须撤退好以混淆我们的士兵。
8. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
   神却拣选了世上愚拙的，叫有智慧的羞愧。
9. Confound it, don't you know your own remains?
   难道你竟连自己的身体到底在哪里都不知道吗？
10. Dumfounded, to fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound.
    目瞪口呆充满惊讶与不解，迷惑。
11. Confound the dad-blasted water! Why didn't you tell me it was so hot?
    混蛋天打雷劈的水！为什么你刚才不告诉我水这么热呢？
12. The children love speaking French to confound their friends.
    孩子们喜欢讲法语，让他们的朋友们不知所措。
13. 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！
14. Some scientists call these changes minor errors, but it's enough to confound the human immune system.
    一些科学家将这些变化叫做“小差错”，但是它已经足够扰乱人体的免疫系统。
15. The functions of basophils, one of the first immune cells to be identified, continue to confound researchers.
    嗜碱性细胞，第一种被发现的免疫细胞，它的功能继续令研究人员困惑。
16. She thought I'd have to Confound the examiner.
    她认为我对考试官施了混淆咒。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. Don't know is which confound you things behind my back, patted vanished, left befuddled I standing still.
    不知是哪个混账东西在我背后拍了一下，消失得无影无踪了，撇下一头雾水的我呆呆地站在那里。
21. Either this is the one piece of the puzzle that I somehow got wrong, or other factors are working to temporarily confound fundamental economics and prop up the bond market.
    无论这是一件困惑，我有点错了，还是有其他因素的工作，暂时混淆基本经济学和扶植债券市场。
22. As for that boy, I don't know where he is, confound him," says he, "nor I don't much care.
    至于那孩子，我不知道他在哪里，也不想管他了，让他见鬼去吧。
23. Confound me! Ive lost my new pen.
    妈的。我把新钢笔给掉了。
24. It's designed to confuse or confound you.
    都设计成能够迷惑或混淆你。
25. Firstly, never underestimate the ability of markets to confound investors 'expectations.
    首先，永远不要低估市场挫败投资者预期的能力。
26. But there's a big confound, there's a big problem in studies of those kind of relationships.
    但是有一个让人混淆的问题，存在于这种关系的研究中。
27. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men;
    那些扰乱了我们，使我们疑难、困惑的问题也曾经发生在所有聪明人心上；
28. It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
    将异常的东西和神秘混淆起来是十分错误的。
29. Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
    你们侮辱我，已有十次之多，苛待我却不知羞愧。
30. Growth miracles such as that confound cultural pessimism.
    这样的增长奇迹是文化悲观主义所不能解释的。

v.

confound it/you!

• （表示愤怒）真讨厌，去你的
  used to show that you are angry about sth/with sb

verb

1. mistake one thing for another
   1. you are confusing me with the other candidate
   2. I mistook her for the secretary

   Synonym:    confuse

2. be confusing or perplexing to
   1. These questions confuse even the experts
   2. This question completely threw me
   3. This question befuddled even the teacher

   Synonym:    confusethrowfoxbefuddlefuddlebedevildiscombobulate