His amazing recovery confounded the medical specialists.
他的神奇康复使医学专家感到惊讶。
2to prove someone or something wrong 证明…有错
confound the critics/pundits/experts etc
United’s new striker confounded the critics with his third goal in as many games.
联队的新前锋以三场比赛的三个进球让批评者目瞪口呆。
3.formalBEAT/DEFEAT to defeat an enemy, plan etc 挫败〔敌人、计划等〕
4formalNOT KNOW if a problem etc confounds you, you cannot understand it or solve it 〔问题等〕把…难住,使不知所措
Her question completely confounded me.
她的问题把我彻底难住了。
5.confound it/him/them etcANNOY old-fashioned used to show that you are annoyed with someone or something 讨厌,该死
Examples from the Corpus
confound it/him/them etc• And if Callie confuses them, Mona confounds them.• Placed there to confront and confound him.• She summons Deronda and pours out her desire to be what he wants, her inarticulatemiseryconfounding him.• Use their expectations and then confound them.• Hell and the devilconfound it, this was his home!