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词汇 confuse
释义 confuse
verb[ T ]
uk /kənˈfjuːz/ us /kənˈfjuːz/
B2
to mix up someone's mind or ideas, or to make something difficult to understand: 使困惑,使糊涂;使混乱
You're confusing him! Tell him slowly and one thing at a time.你把他搞糊涂了!慢慢跟他讲,一次说一件事。
Stop confusing the issue (= making the problem unnecessarily difficult)!别再把事情越搞越乱!
B2
to mix up two separate things or people in your mind, imagining that they are one: 将…混同,将…混淆
You're confusing me with my sister - she's the singer.你把我当成我姐姐了——她才是歌手。
It's easy to confuse his films, because he tends to use the same actors.他的影片很容易混淆,因为他老是用相同的演员。
I think you're confusing him with someone else.
If you give them too much detail, you'll just confuse them.
We were confused by the fact that the signs pointed in opposite directions.
Stop confusing me with all those figures!
The instructions are designed to confuse people.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Puzzle and confuse
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baffle
bedazzle
befuddle
bemuse
cloud
discombobulate
disorientate
do someone's head inidiom
flummox
fox
fuddle
puzzle
search
throw
throw (someone) a curve (ball)/curveballidiom
throw someone off balanceidiom
tie
tie someone (up) in knotsidiom
unbalance

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confuse | American Dictionary


confuse
verb[ T ]
us/kənˈfjuz/
to cause someone to feel uncertain or unclear, or to make something difficult to understand:
You’re confusing me – please repeat the directions more slowly.
Someone who confuses one thing with another thinks the first thing is the second:
You’re confusing me with my sister – she’s the one who moved to Colorado.

confusable


adjective, noun[ C ]us/kənˈfju·zə·bəl/

confused


adjectiveus/kənˈfjuzd/
Her confused reaction is understandable.

confusing


adjectiveus/kənˈfju·zɪŋ/
The directions were confusing, and I got lost.

Examples of confuse


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