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Confuse   [V Confused Verb 动词 N I Things

英语单词 confuse
英美音标 英 [kən'fjuːz] 美 [kən'fjuːz]
中文释义 vt.使困惑;使混乱;混淆
英语例句 (1) They asked so many questions that they confused me.
(2) Your explanation does not so much enlighten us as confuse us.
(3) Her unexpected arrival confused all our plans.
(4) Please don't confuse Australia with Austria.
(5) I often confuse you and your brother.
中文例句 (1) 他们问了许许多多问题,把我弄糊涂了。
(2) 你的解释没有起到启发作用,反而把我们弄糊涂了。
(3) 她突然来到把我们所有的计划全打乱了.
(4) 别把澳大利亚和奥地利混淆了。
(5) 我常把你和你哥哥弄错了。
vocabulary简明 If you confuse two things, you are not correctly identifying them. If you confuse heartburn with a heart attack, you might end up at the emergency room instead of in the antacid aisle of the drugstore.
vocabulary扩展 To confuse can also mean to bewilder. If you tell a teacher that she's confusing you, you probably mean that she's being more complex than you can handle. A lot of people get confused by the differences among "their," "they're," and "there." To confuse the situation even further, there's "theirs" and "there's."
柯林斯解释
1
[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.
  [V pl-n]
  [V n with n]
  • 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!

confusion
  • 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。

2
[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。

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