confound是什么意思_confound怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;"These questions confuse even the experts"
"This question completely threw me"
"This question befuddled even the teacher"

mistake one thing for another;"you are confusing me with the other candidate"
"I mistook her for the secretary"

中英词源

confound 使困惑

con-, 强调。-found, 流，倾泻，词源同confuse, foundry. 即流到一起的，难以区别而困惑的。

confound: confound: [13] Latin confundere literally meant ‘pour together’; it was a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and fundere ‘pour’ (source of English found ‘melt’ and fuse). This sense was later extended figuratively to ‘mix up, fail to distinguish’, a meaning which passed via Old French confondre into English. Meanwhile, the Latin verb’s past participle, confusus, came to be used as an adjective; in Old French this became confus, which English acquired in the 14th century as confuse.

This was soon assimilated to the normal pattern of English past participial adjectives as confused, from which the new verb confuse, was coined.
=> confuse, found, fuse
confound (v.): c. 1300, "make uneasy, abash," from Anglo-French confoundre, Old French confondre (12c.) "crush, ruin, disgrace, throw into disorder," from Latin confundere "to confuse," literally "to pour together, mix, mingle," from com- "together" (see com-) + fundere "to pour" (see found (v.2)).

The figurative sense of "confuse, fail to distinguish, mix up" emerged in Latin, passed into French and thence into Middle English, where it is mostly found in Scripture; the sense of "destroy utterly" is recorded in English from c. 1300. Meaning "perplex" is late 14c. The Latin past participle confusus, meanwhile, became confused (q.v.).

词态变化

第三人称单数 confounds;
过去式 confounded;
过去分词 confounded;
现在分词 confounding;

权威造句

1. 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。

2. Don"t confound the means with the ends.: 不要使手段与目的混淆不清.

3. Are you going to lie there all day , confound it, you sow! ": 妈的,还躺着, 猪猡 ”!

4. Confound him , what does he mean by dogging me?: 该死的家伙, 他干吗老盯住我呢 ?

5. Confound [ God confound ] it [ you ] !: 畜生!混蛋!该死的!

近反义词

Confound you! 混蛋！

Confound it! 该死！讨厌！...

相似短语

confound with 分不清

be confound at v. 惊慌失措

confound right and wrong v. 混淆是非

单词分析

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