con.fuse

confuse的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [kənˈfju:z]
KK音标发音： [kənˈfjuz]

confuse的词性：
v.（动词）

confuse的词性：
v.tr.（及物动词）

1. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off.
使迷惑：使不能清析地思考或理智地行动；使犯错误

2. To cause to feel embarrassment.
使感觉窘迫

3. To mistake (one thing for another):
误解（一个当成另一个）：

confused effusiveness with affection.
把言语的吐露误解为故意的炫耀

4. To make opaque; blur:
使不透明；把…弄模糊：

“The old labels . . . confuse debate instead of clarifying it”(Christopher Lasch)
“旧的标签…不但无法澄清议题，反而使它更加模糊了”(克里斯托夫·拉希)

5. To assemble without order or sense; jumble.
使混乱：无感觉或顺序的糅合；使混淆

6. Archaic To bring to ruination.
【古语】 使毁灭

confuse的词性：
v.intr.（不及物动词）

7. To make something unclear or incomprehensible:
使得某物不清楚或不易理解：

a new tax code that only further confuses.
只造成更多疑问的新税法

confuse的词源：

8. Middle English confusen
中古英语 confusen

9. from Old French confus [perplexed]
源自 古法语 confus [困惑的]

10. from Latin c?nf^?sus [past participle of] c?nfundere [to mix together] * see confound
源自 拉丁语 c?nf^?sus [] c?nfundere的过去分词 [使混乱] *参见 confound

confuse的词性：
adv.（副词）

confuse， addle， befuddle， discombobulate， fuddle， muddle， throw

11. The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to cause to be unclear in mind or intent”:
这些动词的中心意思都是“引起思想或意图的混乱”：

heavy traffic that confused the novice driver;
繁忙的交通使新司机不知所措；

problems that addle my brain;
问题把我的大脑搞糊涂了；

a question that befuddled even the professor;
这个问题甚至难住了教授；

was discombobulated by the staggering number of possibilities;
被惊人的概率数字搞乱了；

a plot so complex that it fuddles one's comprehension;
情节如此繁杂以致于使人理解困难；

a head that was muddled by endless facts and figures;
大脑被没完没了的数字和事实搞得乱七八糟；

behavior that really threw me.
他的行为把我弄懵了