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

• 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。
• That makes the lethality of white-nose syndrome that much more confounding.
  这就让白鼻综合症的致命性越发令人不解。
• But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding.
  但是盖茨比身上却发生了一种令人惶惑的变化。
• 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。
• 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。
• Their statistical models attempted to correct for potential confounding variables, such as the fact that an economic downturn and financial uncertainty may increase mortality rates regardless of whether there is a banking crisis.
  他们的统计模型试图校正潜在的混淆性变量，例如，无论是否存在银行业危机，经济衰退和金融不确定性都可能导致死亡率上升。
• After adjusting for potential confounding factors, the corresponding risk reductions fell slightly to28% and32%.
  在调整潜在混杂因子的影响后，相应的患病风险下降率下降到28%-32%。
• 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。
• 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。