confound
vt. 使混淆,使混乱; 挫败; 诅咒
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.
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。
1. be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;
2. mistake one thing for another;
puzzle, bewilder, confuse, embarrass, perplex, baffle, confound, distract
这些动词均有"使困惑,迷惑,糊涂,伤脑筋"之意。
We must be careful not to confound isolated members of a body with the body itself.
我们必须当心不要混淆一个群体的单个成员和这个群体本身的区别.
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.
Do not confound the means with the ends.
不要混淆手段和目的.
Why don't you confound your critics and write something completely different?
那你何不让你的批评者们大吃一惊,写些完全不同的东西?
Specious words confound virtue. Want of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans.
巧言乱德. 小不忍,则乱大谋.