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

• 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。
• For one small group of investors, this return to normal places them in a new, confounding position.
  对一小部分投资者来说，情况恢复正常让他们陷入了另一种惶恐状态。
• We estimated the incidence rate of suicide-related events and used logistic regression to compute odds ratios, controlling for confounding factors.
  我们对自杀相关事件的发生率作出了评价，采用逻辑回归法计算出优势率，并对混淆因素进行了核实。
• His editorial highlights confounding variables in the studies.
  他的按语强调了研究中的混杂变量。
• After adjusting for potential confounding factors, the corresponding risk reductions fell slightly to28% and32%.
  在调整潜在混杂因子的影响后，相应的患病风险下降率下降到28%-32%。
• Limitations of this study include possible unmeasured confounding and lack of data concerning cryptorchidism, which is another potential cause of infertility and testicular cancer.
  这项研究的限制包括可能未评量的干扰因素，以及缺乏有关隐睾症相关的数据，这是另一个造成不孕症与睾丸癌的潜在原因。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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咖啡因反感的混淆作用，作为研究的主要效果。