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confound vt.使困惑；混淆；挫败；诅咒 (1) 不要把手段和目的混淆起来。(2) 混淆两件事物的意思是说没能把它们区分开来。 The verb confound means both "to mistake" and "to confuse." If you decide to treat yourself to a delicious dessert, you might find yourself confounded by the overwhelming number of choices. If you end up ordering the chocolate cake but the waiter brings you chocolate mousse, the waiter has somehow confounded those two options. Another meaning you may come across in literature is "to damn," as in "Confound it! You are the most exasperating person on the planet."

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英 [kən'faʊnd] 美 [kən'faʊnd] (1) Don't confound the means with the ends.(2) To confound two things means not to be able to tell them apart. If you have an identical twin, you've probably tried dressing alike so that people confound you with, or mistake you for, one another. You've also probably learned that, unfortunately, this trick doesn’t work on your mom. 1[VERB 动词]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.   [V n]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。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。

英语单词	confound
英美音标	英 [kən'faʊnd] 美 [kən'faʊnd]
中文释义	vt.使困惑；混淆；挫败；诅咒
英语例句	(1) Don't confound the means with the ends. (2) To confound two things means not to be able to tell them apart.
中文例句	(1) 不要把手段和目的混淆起来。 (2) 混淆两件事物的意思是说没能把它们区分开来。
vocabulary简明	If you have an identical twin, you've probably tried dressing alike so that people confound you with, or mistake you for, one another. You've also probably learned that, unfortunately, this trick doesn’t work on your mom.
vocabulary扩展	The verb confound means both "to mistake" and "to confuse." If you decide to treat yourself to a delicious dessert, you might find yourself confounded by the overwhelming number of choices. If you end up ordering the chocolate cake but the waiter brings you chocolate mousse, the waiter has somehow confounded those two options. Another meaning you may come across in literature is "to damn," as in "Confound it! You are the most exasperating person on the planet."
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]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. [V n] 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。 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。

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