confused
英 [k?n'fju?zd]
美 [k?n'fjuzd]
- adj. 困惑的；混亂的；糊涂的
- v. 困惑（confuse的過去式）
英文詞源
- confused (adj.)
- early 14c., "discomfited, routed, defeated" (of groups), serving at first as an alternative past participle of confound, as Latin confusus was the past participle of confundere "to pour together, mix, mingle; to join together;" hence, figuratively, "to throw into disorder; to trouble, disturb, upset." The Latin past participle also was used as an adjective, with reference to mental states, "troubled, embarrassed," and this passed into Old French as confus "dejected, downcast, undone, defeated, discomfited in mind or feeling," which passed to Middle English as confus (14c.; for example Chaucer's "I am so confus, that I may not seye"), which then was assimilated to the English past participle pattern by addition of -ed. Of individuals, "discomfited in mind, perplexed," from mid-14c.; of ideas, speech, thought, etc., from 1610s. By mid-16c., the word seems to have been felt as a pure adj., and it evolved a back-formed verb in confuse. Few English etymologies are more confused.
雙語例句
- 1. She had a confused idea of life in general.
- 總的來說，她對生活非常困惑。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. This policy, they say, is at best confused and at worst non-existent.
- 有人說這項(xiàng)政策往好里說是混亂不堪，往壞里說就是形同虛設(shè)。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Things were happening too quickly and Brian was confused.
- 事情發(fā)生得太快，把布賴恩給弄糊涂了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Russia's efforts to attract investment have been halting and confused.
- 俄羅斯在吸引投資上一直躊躇不前，混亂不清。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. He's in hospital, and in a confused state of mind.
- 他住院了，意識仍然不清。
來自柯林斯例句