confounding

英 [kənˈfaʊndɪŋ]

美 [kənˈfaʊndɪŋ]

v.  使困惑惊讶; 使惊疑; 证明…有错; 击败，战胜(敌人)
confound的现在分词

现在分词：confounding　

BNC.44060 / COCA.24140

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使困惑;使惊讶
  If someone or somethingconfoundsyou, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
  1. He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis...
     他对人质危机的冷静处理一时让批评者们惊讶不已。
  2. The choice of Governor may confound us all.
     州长的选择可能会让我们所有人感到困惑。

英英释义

adj

• that confounds or contradicts or confuses
  Synonym:contradictory

双语例句

• Further, the absolute concentrations of these metabolites in EPS appear to be independent of age, increasing the potential utility of these markers due to elimination of age as a confounding variable.
  另外，EPS中这三种代谢物的绝对浓度看起来与年龄无关的。由于不需要年龄作为混杂变量，增加了这些标记物的潜在效用。
• After all, it was a small-sample study, conducted over a mere five days, with plenty of potentially confounding variables in the design.
  毕竟，这只是为期五天的一个小样本研究，设计中存在大量潜在混淆的变量。
• He is good at confounding black and white and telling lies.
  他善于颠倒黑白，睁着眼睛说瞎话。
• Researchers cited their attempt to control for the confounding effect of caffeine aversion during pregnancy as a major strength of the study.
  研究人员引用，他们尝试控制在怀孕期间对***反感的混淆作用，作为研究的主要效果。
• These analyses depend on a number of potentially confounding factors such as nonstomatal transpiration and temperature.
  这些分析取决于非气孔蒸腾和温度这样一些可能混淆的因素。
• But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding.
  但是盖茨比身上却发生了一种令人惶惑的变化。
• Caffeine intake was associated with a significantly lower risk for AD, independently of other possible confounding variables.
  ***摄入量与AD风险降低明显相关，不依赖于其他伴随因子。
• Daytime and nighttime systolic blood pressure predicted all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, coronary heart disease, and stroke, independently from office blood pressure and confounding variables.
  白天和夜间收缩压可预测总体的心血管死亡率、冠心病、中风，数据独立的来自于工作时血压和其他一些混杂情况。
• But the validity of such studies was questionable because of confounding factors, including smoking, which contributes to both periodontal disease and cancer.
  不过这类研究的可信性是令人质疑的，因为存在着混杂因素，其中包括吸烟，牙周疾病和癌症都能由吸烟导致。
• These results posed, for Mr. Heckman, a confounding intellectual puzzle.
  这些研究结果向赫克曼提出了一个令人困惑的关于智力的问题。