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confound

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

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  • 国际音标(帮助): /kənˈfaʊnd/
  • （美国）音频：(档案)
    韵部：-aʊnd
  • 断字：con‧found

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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 The Guardian‎[1]，于15 November 2016归档自原页面:
      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：confuse、mix 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
  6. 使...羞愧
    His actions confounded the skeptics.
    他的行为让怀疑他的人羞愧不已。
  7. 击败，打败，挫败
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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], 第 15 卷，第 552 页:
      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！
  9. (古旧) 摧毁，毁坏，毁灭

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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，第 175 页:
      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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