confound

常见例句

Now, with climate change, another potential disaster looms: shifts in ocean currents that may confound eels during their migrations.
如今，随着气候变化，又隐现出另一种潜在的危险：洋流移位有可能迷惑迁移中鳗鱼。
He is at bottom a deeply old-fashioned Conservative; so old-fashioned, in fact, as to confound the expectations shaped by recent Tory history.
他是一个彻头彻尾、墨守成规的保守派；事实上，他太保守了，可能会挫败托利党近代历史中形成的期望。
Individuals can (and regularly do) have conversations that confound institutions, because these conversations lie beyond any institutional zone of control.
个人可以进行对话，并且打败机构，因为这些对话超越了任何机构可以掌控的范围。

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.
但是有一个让人混淆的问题,存在于这种关系的研究中。
耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选
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.
你将会发现很多物理问题会让你困扰,而眼下我会举一个例子来阐述,什么叫了解现在,什么又叫预测未来
耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

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