confound
vt. 使混淆,使混亂; 挫敗; 詛咒
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...
他對人質危機的冷靜處理一時讓批評者們驚訝不已。
The choice of Governor may confound us all.
州長的選擇可能會讓我們所有人感到困惑。
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
這些動詞均有"使困惑,迷惑,糊塗,傷腦筋"之意。
We must be careful not to confound isolated members of a body with the body itself.
我們必須當心不要混淆一個群體的單個成員和這個群體本身的區別.
To confound two things means not to be able to tell them apart.
混淆兩件事物的意思是說沒能把它們區分開來.
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?
那你何不讓你的批評者們大吃一驚,寫些完全不同的東西?
Specious words confound virtue. Want of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans.
巧言亂德. 小不忍,則亂大謀.