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

• 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。
• 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。
• Although study limitations included observational design, the authors thought it unlikely that confounding by indication could explain the findings.
  虽然研究的局限性包括观察性设计，作者仍认为用这些迹象的混淆来解释这些发现是不可能的。
• 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。
• Worse yet, his did this after he had corrupted it by confounding it with another Native culture.
  更糟糕的是，他的行为玷污了另一个印第安文化。
• He accepted that there was potential for a confounding bias in such observational registries.
  他认为在这种观察性研究中存在着混杂偏倚。
• The findings are subject to selection bias and confounding, which will have been minimised but not eliminated by propensity score matching.
  该发现是受选择偏倚和混杂设计的影响，这些可以通过倾向评分匹配最大限度的降低但不能消除。
• That makes the lethality of white-nose syndrome that much more confounding.
  这就让白鼻综合症的致命性越发令人不解。
• Here are 12 popular love idioms and phrases that are used frequently but are quite confounding.
  下面是频繁使用但是很容易混淆的12个流行的爱情习语和短语。
• 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。