confound
柯林斯詞典
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. 他通過冷靜処理人質(zhì)危機頓時使他的批評者們大喫一驚。
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confound /k?n?fa?nd/ (confounding,confounded,confounds)
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來，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，令評論家們大感意外。 返回 confound