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单词 confuse
释义
confuse
verb[T]
uk
/kənˈfjuːz/us
/kənˈfjuːz/
B2
tomixup someone'smindorideas, or to make somethingdifficulttounderstand:
使困惑，使糊涂；使混乱
You're confusing him! Tell himslowlyand one thing at atime.你把他搞糊涂了！慢慢跟他讲，一次说一件事。
Stop confusing theissue(= making theproblemunnecessarilydifficult)!别再把事情越搞越乱！
B2
tomixup twoseparatethings orpeopleinyourmind,imaginingthat they are one:
将…混同，将…混淆
You're confusing mewithmysister- she's thesinger.你把我当成我姐姐了——她才是歌手。
It'seasyto confuse hisfilms, because hetendsto use the sameactors.他的影片很容易混淆，因为他老是用相同的演员。
More examples
  • Ithinkyou're confusing him with someoneelse.
  • If you give them too muchdetail, you'll just confuse them.
  • We were confused by thefactthat thesignspointedinoppositedirections.
  • Stop confusing me with all thosefigures!
  • Theinstructionsaredesignedto confusepeople.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Puzzle and confuse
  • addle
  • baffle
  • bedazzle
  • befuddle
  • bemuse
  • disorientate
  • dosomeone'shead inidiom
  • flummox
  • fox
  • fuddle
  • knock/throwsomeonefor a loopidiom
  • loop
  • puzzle
  • search
  • throw
  • throw(someone)a curve (ball)idiom
  • throwsomeoneoff balanceidiom
  • tie
  • tiesomeone(up) in knotsidiom
  • unbalance
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(Definition ofconfusefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

confuse| American Dictionary

confuse
verb[T]
us
/kənˈfjuz/
tocausesomeone tofeeluncertainorunclear, or to make somethingdifficulttounderstand:
You’re confusing me –pleaserepeatthedirectionsmoreslowly.
Someone who confuses one thing with anotherthinksthe first thing is the second:
You’re confusing me with mysister– she’s the one whomovedtoColorado.

confusable

adjective,noun[C]us/kənˈfju·zə·bəl/

confused

adjectiveus
/kənˈfjuzd/
Her confusedreactionisunderstandable.

confusing

adjectiveus
/kənˈfju·zɪŋ/
Thedirectionswere confusing, and I gotlost.
(Definition ofconfusefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconfuse

confuse
As it develops, especially in the second half of the century, the picture becomes increasingly variegated, scrambled, and confused.
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First, the absence of evidence of any positive effects for an experimental variable should not be confused with evidence of absence of such effects.
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He is soon, however, hopelessly confused in attempts to distinguish between capital to the individual and capital to the nation.
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The confinement rules partition the set of types and prevent types belonging to different partition from being confused with one another.
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Relatively few demonstrated any informed awareness of the raft of policies outlined above and some that professed understanding were in reality confused or mistaken.
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Note that occurrences of holes will be filled by reduction contexts and are not to be confused with redex holes.
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He too insisted that law should not be confused with custom.
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The revolution confused: a response to our critics.
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Furthermore, they were formulated in 1548, before diversity of religion had seriously fragmented policy and confused traditional conflicts.
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Readers may also find the opening section on geography extremely dry, and the multitude of ethnic groups confusing.
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Nevertheless, three concepts still appear to be confused, ill-defined, or interchangeable in the literature: reflective practice, reflection, and the reflective practitioner.
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Not to be confused with the hardware notion of an interrupt, which is more akin to an asynchronous subroutine call.
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In previous formulations of projection strictness analysis, the two forms of demand were confused (literally) by the lifting trick.
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Is infant bilingual acquisition fundamentally similar to monolingual acquisition or is it delayed and confused ?
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Removing it is not to be confused with cleaning a painting from subsequent dirt - noise was there in the original creation of the work.
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