同近义词辨析
puzzle, confound, bewilder, perplex, confuse, distract, embarrass, baffle
这组词都有“使困惑、迷惑、糊涂、伤脑筋”的意思，其区别是：
bewilder语气强烈，指因迷不解或惊愕而慌乱，不知所措，无法清醒地思考。
perplex除困惑外，还含焦虑或缺乏把握之意，因而难于作出决定，无从下手处理。
distract主要用于注意力分散、思想矛盾或过分激动时产生的昏乱。
embarrass常指因处境或困难问题而感到窘迫、局促不安或焦急而不知所措。
baffle语气最强，多指遇见奇怪情景或复杂困难情况时所产生的惶恐困惑心理。
双语例句
用作及物动词(vt.)
- Don't confound the means with the ends.
不要把手段和目的混淆起来。 - To confound two things means not to be able to tell them apart.
混淆两件事物的意思是说没能把它们区分开来。
权威例句
Genetic variation may confound analysis of CRISPR-Cas9 off-target mutationsDo respiratory epidemics confound the association between air pollution and daily deaths?Distance‐based multivariate analyses confound location and dispersion effectsMeasurement of pain: patient preference does not confound pain measurement.Traditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural ParaguayVariability of cortisol assays can confound the diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency in the critically ill populationDo Reverse-Worded Items Confound Measures in Cross-Cultural Consumer Research? The Case of the Material Values Scale | Journal of Co...An improved framework for confound regression and filtering for control of motion artifact in the preprocessing of resting-state fun...Measuring rDNA diversity in eukaryotic microbial systems: how intragenomic variation, pseudogenes, and PCR artifacts confound biodiv...Satterthwaite TD, Elliott MA, Gerraty RT, Ruparel K, Loughead J, Calkins ME et al. An improved framework for confound regression and...
