To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.

以梦想代思想，便是把毒物和食物混为一谈。

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The labyrinths were supposed to confound any enemies who might get in.

迷宫应该是为了迷惑入侵的敌人而建。

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At times they go so far as to confound right and wrong and turn things upside down.

他们有时简直要闹到颠倒是非、混淆黑白的程度。

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They were tribal members who came up with an unbreakable code in their complex language that was adopted by American forces in the Pacific during World War II and used to confound the Japanese.

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You'll see enough things that will confound you, but right now I want to demonstrate a simple paradigm of what it means to know the present and what it means to say this is what the future behavior will be.

你将会发现很多物理问题会让你困扰,而眼下我会举一个例子来阐述,什么叫了解现在,什么又叫预测未来

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Both Milosevic and Rebrov have since moved on but Kazan have continued to confound expectations.

BBC: Russian minnows hit the big time

High John is a spirit who comes from Africa to free the slaves, and also to confound the master.

NPR: Walter Mosley: A Slave's Flight to Freedom in '47'

Are you sure that it is a good idea to confound commercial banking, investment banking, insurance and stock brokerage?

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