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

• 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。
• Caffeine intake was associated with a significantly lower risk for AD, independently of other possible confounding variables.
  咖啡因摄入量与AD风险降低明显相关，不依赖于其他伴随因子。
• We used Cox regression models to estimate the risk of cancer and adjust for potential confounding factors.
  我们使用Cox回归模型来估计罹患癌症的风险并根据潜在的混淆因素进行校正。
• Further, the absolute concentrations of these metabolites in EPS appear to be independent of age, increasing the potential utility of these markers due to elimination of age as a confounding variable.
  另外，EPS中这三种代谢物的绝对浓度看起来与年龄无关的。由于不需要年龄作为混杂变量，增加了这些标记物的潜在效用。
• 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。
• His editorial highlights confounding variables in the studies.
  他的按语强调了研究中的混杂变量。
• 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。
• 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。
• Results showed that working jobs and seniority were the major confounding factors to the prevalences calculation.
  结果表明，工种、工龄是计算粗患病率时的主要混杂因素。
• 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。