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Past Participle English Confused Latin Passed Confus 5715.Confused

正面 5715.confused
英 [kən'fjuːzd]美 [kən'fjuzd]

背面
释义:
adj. 困惑的;混乱的;糊涂的v. 困惑(confuse的过去式)
例句:
1. She had a confused idea of life in general.总的来说,她对生活非常困惑。

1、fact + fiction.

confused (adj.)early 14c., "discomfited, routed, defeated" (of groups), serving at first as an alternative past participle of confound, as Latin confusus was the past participle of confundere "to pour together, mix, mingle; to join together;" hence, figuratively, "to throw into disorder; to trouble, disturb, upset." The Latin past participle also was used as an adjective, with reference to mental states, "troubled, embarrassed," and this passed into Old French as confus "dejected, downcast, undone, defeated, discomfited in mind or feeling," which passed to Middle English as confus (14c.; for example Chaucer's "I am so confus, that I may not seye"), which then was assimilated to the English past participle pattern by addition of -ed. Of individuals, "discomfited in mind, perplexed," from mid-14c.; of ideas, speech, thought, etc., from 1610s. By mid-16c., the word seems to have been felt as a pure adj., and it evolved a back-formed verb in confuse. Few English etymologies are more confused."

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