confound
confound 英 [kənˈfaʊnd] 美 [kənˈfaʊnd, kɑn-]
vt. 使混淆；挫败；讨厌；使混乱
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- If you have an identical twin, you've probably tried dressing alike so that people confound you with, or mistake you for, one another. You've also probably learned that, unfortunately, this trick doesn’t work on your mom.
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- vt. 使混淆；挫败；讨厌；使混乱
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1. 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。
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2. How will we engage the differences that confound us and bring us to the brink of warfare in our neighborhoods, schools, communities, political parties and nations?
我们将如何容忍差异？ 它曾令人困惑，曾在邻里、学校、社区、政治派系和国家间，将我们逼向战争的边缘？
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3. 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。
- confound (v.) c. 1300, "to condemn, curse," also "to destroy utterly;" from Anglo-French confoundre, Old French confondre (12c.) "crush, ruin, disgrace, throw into disorder," from Latin confundere "to confuse, jumble together, bring into disorder," especially of the mind or senses, "disconcert, perplex," properly "to pour, mingle, or mix together," from assimilated form of com "together" (see con-) + fundere "to pour" (from nasalized form of PIE root *gheu- "to pour").
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