Confound

(v. t.) To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

(v. t.) To mistake for another; to identify falsely.

(v. t.) To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.

(v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; to waste.

校对:卡特里娜

• Confound you handsome young fellows! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Dan said, Confound the idiot! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Confound Mrs. Rachael! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• No, no; confound and curse me! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• You'll only lose your own temper, and utterly confound Dinah. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• You must not confound us with London in general, my dear sir. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• You must not confound my meaning. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• They must not be confounded together. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Utterly confounded, Mr. George awhile stands looking at the knocker. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She says that if I can afford to give a party I ought to be able to pay her confounded “little bill. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Somewhat confounded, Miss Wren parried the pleasantry, and sat down in a corner behind the door, with her basket in her lap. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His sufferings were hailed with the greatest joy by a knot of spectators, and I felt utterly confounded. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Now you are confounding Antwerp with Amsterdam. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Don't try to go confounding the rights and wrongs of things in that way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This is a mistake, into which the author has been led by trusting to his memory, and so confounding two places of the same name. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He is apt to denominate, however, his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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