V-T If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong. 使吃惊; 使困惑
He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis.
他通过冷静处理人质危机顿时使他的批评者们大吃一惊。
She then confounds me by sitting down to eat the free meal.
她之后坐下吃免费餐食的行为则让我困惑。
Yet the rate the ice is vanishing confounds these climatologists' models.
然而海冰消失的速率使这些气象学家建立的气候模型陷入混乱。
As with Flip, the design confounds notions of what a camera should look like: it resembles a short, square telescope.
同Flip一样，它的设计也颠覆了传统理念中的相机外形：它像是一个短小的方形望远镜。
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