[VERB 动词]混淆;搞错 If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
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Great care is taken to avoid confusing the two types of projects...
大家非常谨慎,以免把这两类项目弄混。
I can't see how anyone could confuse you with another!
我不明白怎么会有人把你和另外一个人搞混!
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Use different colours of felt pen on your sketch to avoid confusion.
用不同颜色的毡头笔画草图,以免搞混。
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[VERB 动词]把…弄糊涂;使困惑 To confuse someone means to make it difficult for them to know exactly what is happening or what to do.
[V n]
German politics surprised and confused him.
德国政治既令他惊讶,又让他困惑不解。
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[VERB 动词]搅乱;使复杂化 To confuse a situation means to make it complicated or difficult to understand.
[V n]
To further confuse the issue, there is an enormous variation in the amount of sleep people feel happy with.
使问题进一步复杂化的是,每个人需要的睡眠时间千差万别。
Oxford
con·fuse★/kənˈfjuːz; NAmEkənˈfjuːz/verb1★confusesb to make sb unable to think clearly or understand sth 使糊涂;使迷惑◆They confused me with conflicting accounts of what happened.他们对发生的事所作的陈述自相矛盾,使我迷惑不解。2★confuseA and/with B to think wrongly that sb/sth is sb/sth else (将…)混淆,混同SYN
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◆People often confuse me and my twin sister.人们常常把我和我的孪生妹妹搞错。◆Be careful not to confuse quantity with quality.注意不要把数量与质量混淆了。3★confusesth to make a subject more difficult to understand 使更难于理解◆His comments only served to confuse the issue further.他的评论只是把问题弄得更加复杂。confuseconfusesconfusedconfusingcon·fuse/kənˈfjuːz; NAmEkənˈfjuːz/
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confusecon‧fuse /kənˈfjuːz/ ●●○ verb [transitive]
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1to make someone feel that they cannot think clearly or do not understand: I understand the text but the diagrams are confusing me.2to think wrongly that a person or thing is someone or something else: People might well confuse the two products.confuse somebody/something with somebody/something I always confuse you with your sister – you look so alike. Donald Regan, not to be confused with former President Ronald Reagan3confuse the issue/matter/argument etc to make it even more difficult to think clearly about a situation or problem or to deal with it: He kept asking unnecessary questions which only confused the issue.
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