柯林斯詞典confound /k?n?fa?nd/ (confounding,confounded,confounds) 1. V-T 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. 使吃驚; 使困惑 He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis. 他通過冷靜處理人質(zhì)危機頓時使他的批評者們大吃一驚。 返回 confounding