turmoil
B2[ U ]
a situation, often with a lot of activity and noise, in which people do not know what to do: 混乱状态
In the confusion after the bomb blast, I lost my bag and wasn't able to stop and look for it.在爆炸发生后的一片混乱中，我丢了包，也无法停下来寻找。
A spokeswoman blamed the confusion on miscommunication between the company and its customers.一名女发言人把混乱情况归咎于公司与客户间的信息误传。
The picture emerging in reports from the battlefield is one of complete confusion.据报道，战场上的局面一片混乱。
Label your suitcases to prevent confusion.在你的手提箱上贴上标签以防弄混。
The confusion was caused when two numbers were accidentally transposed by a Social Security clerk.
From every direction, people were running and shouting and falling over each other in a tumult of confusion.在一片骚乱中，人们四处狂奔，大喊大叫，你绊倒我我绊倒你。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Confusion, confusing and feeling confused
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discombobulation
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muddle-headed
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muzzily
unaccountable
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confusion | American Dictionary

confusion
noun[ C/U ]
us/kənˈfju·ʒən/
a lack of understanding, or a state of disorder:
[ C ]She writes about the confusions of her life.
[ U ]In the confusion, I lost my wallet.

Examples of confusion

confusion
Distinguishing between competence and performance prevents us from being led into harmful confusions.
Removing common confusions about egocentric speech, private speech, and selfregulation.
Here the confusions implicit in attempts to 'revise' the concept of toleration surface.
Such confusions may be especially prominent with letters because of their generally high similarity.
Within-list confusions still occurred across about three items.
However, it seems to us that there are several confusions in this part of his discussion.
Clearly there are some fundamental confusions here over issues such as differences among the users, functions, and structures of a given language.
Although the schwa rarely leads to semantic confusions, its analysis in word-median or monosyllabic contexts shows interesting phonostylistic variations.
In comedy, the end comes when the confusions are unravelled; the day is over, equilibrium is restored with the finality of the closed curtain.
The existing bibliography is riddled with inaccuracies, confusions, unchecked assertions and self-contradictory claims, repeated in successive works.
We particularly need research to help identify the source of any aberrations, distortions, or confusions which could arbitrarily affect judgments.
We also discuss residual confusions about existing research and remaining methodological issues.
There are many such confusions in the article.
Log transformations were applied to the variables of number of confusions, similarity rating, and stimulus and response letter frequency to make the distributions more normal.
Regression analyses were carried out for each language to predict confusions on each stimulus-response pair from a variety of factors.
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Collocations withconfusion

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a lot of confusion
Not surprisingly, there is a lotofconfusion about the evaluation of political traditions.
apparent confusion
In one case, there was an apparentconfusion between the requirements of confidentiality and informed consent.
bit of confusion
There seems to be a bitofconfusion in this work between a revolutionary condition, a revolutionary outcome, and a period of consolidation.
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