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. 使喫驚; 使睏惑 He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis. 他通過(guò)冷靜処理人質(zhì)危機(jī)頓時(shí)使他的批評(píng)者們大喫一驚。 返回 confound劍橋詞典to confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a situation 使驚疑，使睏惑 An elderly man from Hull has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officially declared dead . 赫爾市的一位老人在被正式宣佈死亡後居然活了過(guò)來(lái)，令毉生們大惑不解。 The singer confounded her critics with a remarkable follow-up album . 這位歌手隨後又推出了一張不同凡響的專輯，令評(píng)論家們大感意外。 返回 confound