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Now, with climate change, another potential disaster looms: shifts in ocean currents that may confound eels during their migrations.
如今，隨著氣候變化，又隱現(xiàn)出另一種潛在的危險(xiǎn)：洋流移位有可能迷惑遷移中鰻魚。
He is at bottom a deeply old-fashioned Conservative; so old-fashioned, in fact, as to confound the expectations shaped by recent Tory history.
他是一個(gè)徹頭徹尾、墨守成規(guī)的保守派；事實(shí)上，他太保守了，可能會(huì)挫敗托利黨近代歷史中形成的期望。
Individuals can (and regularly do) have conversations that confound institutions, because these conversations lie beyond any institutional zone of control.
個(gè)人可以進(jìn)行對(duì)話，并且打敗機(jī)構(gòu)，因?yàn)檫@些對(duì)話超越了任何機(jī)構(gòu)可以掌控的范圍。

They were tribal members who came up with an unbreakable code in their complex language that was adopted by American forces in the Pacific during World War II and used to confound the Japanese.
But there's a big confound, there's a big problem in studies of those kind of relationships.
但是有一個(gè)讓人混淆的問題,存在于這種關(guān)系的研究中。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
You'll see enough things that will confound you, but right now I want to demonstrate a simple paradigm of what it means to know the present and what it means to say this is what the future behavior will be.
你將會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)很多物理問題會(huì)讓你困擾,而眼下我會(huì)舉一個(gè)例子來闡述,什么叫了解現(xiàn)在,什么又叫預(yù)測(cè)未來
耶魯公開課 - 基礎(chǔ)物理課程節(jié)選

Congress will find a way to avoid, evade, delay, or otherwise confound these spending limits.
FORBES: A Grim Prognosis For Deficit Reduction

to confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a situation

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.