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

• 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。
• A meta-regression analysis is observational in nature and may suffer from confounding bias.
  多元回归分析是观察性的，可能存在混淆偏倚的可能。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Rat studies can be very useful in assessing human effects, because studies of people can be hampered by complex confounding factors which could include cigarette smoking, wealth or urban living.
  对老鼠的研究在评估人类的影响方面可能很有用处，因为对人的研究会受到复杂的令人困惑的因素所限制，其中可能包括吸烟、财富或城市生活。
• 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。
• 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。
• Limitations of this study include reliance on recall of diet and URTI, possible misclassification of exposure because of the timing of data collection, and possible residual confounding.
  本研究的局限性包括对饮食和URTI回忆的依赖、由于数据收集的限制所可能造成的对暴露的错误分类，以及可能残留的混杂因素。
• 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。