confound

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词源[编辑]

源自中古英语 confounden (摧毁;迷惑),源自盎格鲁-诺曼语 cunfundre古法语 confondre,源自拉丁语 confundō (混合,搅混)。与found (冶炼)(与found (创始)find无关)、fusion有关。

发音[编辑]

  • IPA(帮助)/kənˈfaʊnd/
  • 文档
    韵部:-aʊnd
  • 断字:con‧found

动词[编辑]

confound (第三人称单数简单现在时 confounds,现在分词 confounding,一般过去时及过去分词 confounded)

  1. 迷惑,使...困惑
    近义词: puzzle
    • 1830, Joseph Smith, Jr., Book of Mormon: Ether, i, 34:
      And the brother of Jared being a large and mighty man, and a man highly favored of the Lord, Jared, his brother, said unto him: Cry unto the Lord, that he will not confound us that we may not understand our words.
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    • 2012年6月29日,Kevin Mitchell,“Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”,出自 w:The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 15 November 2016:
      The fightback when it came was in the [Roger] Federer fashion: unfussy, filled with classy strokes from the back with perfectly timed interventions at the net that confounded his opponent. The third set passed in a bit of a blur, the fourth, which led to the second tie-break, was the most dramatic of the match.
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  2. 震惊,让...吃惊
  3. 混淆弄混
    近义词: confusemix up;亦参见Thesaurus:confuse
  4. (有时官方不推荐) 使...恶化
    Don't confound the situation by yelling.
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    • 1983, Carol M. Anderson, Susan Stewart, Mastering Resistance: A Practical Guide to Family Therapy:
      While she had obeyed him, smiling sweetly all the time, she had nursed a growing resentment of what she called his "Latin American macho attitude." To confound the problem, his mother, who lived with them on and off, was described by the wife as being as domineering as her son.
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  5. 搅混,使...混同
    • 1611CoryatCrudities,卷号I, 页号195:
      There the freſh and ſalt water would meete and be confounded together, []
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  6. 使...羞愧
    His actions confounded the skeptics.
    他的行为怀疑他的人羞愧不已
  7. 击败打败挫败
    • 1611The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version),London: [] Robert Barker, [], OCLC 964384981, 1 Corinthians 1:27:
      But God hath choſen the fooliſh things of the woꝛld, to confound the wiſe: and God hath choſen the weake things of the woꝛld, to confound the things which are mighty:
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    • a. 1745,unknown author,“God Save the King”,出自 The Gentleman's Magazine[2],卷号15, 页号552:
      O Lord our God ariſe, / Scatter his enemies, / And make them fall: / Confound their politics, / Fruſtrate their knaviſh tricks, / On him our hopes we fix, / O ſave us all.
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    • 1848 February 12, John Mitchel, The United Irishman, Letter to Lord Clarendon,
      I am now, in order the better to confound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them.
  8. (过时) 诅咒 语气较轻的骂人话
    Confound you!
    去你的!
    Confound the lady!
    那个女人!
    • 1882, Arthur Conan Doyle, “My Friend the Murderer”, 出自 The Gully of Bluemansdyke and Other Stories:
      "Number 43 is no better, Doctor," said the head-warder, in a slightly reproachful accent, looking in round the corner of my door.
      "Confound 43!" I responded from behind the pages of the Australian Sketcher.
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  9. (古旧) 摧毁毁坏毁灭

衍生词汇[编辑]

名词[编辑]

confound (复数 confounds)

  1. (统计学) 混淆变量
    近义词: confounder
    • 2009,C. James Goodwin, Research In Psychology: Methods and Design[3],John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, 页号175:
      The participants certainly differ in how their practice is distributed (1, 2, or 3 days), but they also differ in how much total practice they get (3, 6, or 9 hours). This is a perfect example of a confound—it is impossible to tell if the results are due to one factor (distribution of practice) or the other (total practice hours); the two factors covary perfectly.
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