核心畫面

Picture things that were in clear separate places getting stirred together, so the lines between them disappear. Stir up a person's thoughts and they cannot think straight; stir up two similar things and you take one for the other; stir up a topic and nobody can follow it any more.

可以想成:本來各自分明的東西被攪在一起,界線就不見了。攪的是一個人的腦袋,他就想不清楚;攪的是兩個長得像的東西,你就更多收起可以想成:本來各自分明的東西被攪在一起,界線就不見了。攪的是一個人的腦袋,他就想不清楚;攪的是兩個長得像的東西,你就會把甲當成乙;攪的是一個話題,大家就跟不上了。

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把兩個東西搞混

被攪在一起的是兩樣長得像、聽起來像的東西:界線一模糊,你就把其中一個當成了另一個。

mix up · verb · B2

to think that one person or thing is a different person or thing, usually because they look or sound alike.

混淆;搞混

把事情弄得更複雜

被攪亂的是一個議題本身:加進了幫不上忙的東西,原本清楚的討論就變得混濁。

complicate · verb · B2

to make a subject, problem, or situation harder to understand by adding things that do not help.

使混亂;把…弄得更複雜

Also in this word

bewilder · verb · B2

to make someone unable to think clearly, so that they are not sure what is happening or what to do.

使困惑;把…弄糊塗

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

confuseverb詞源 1/kənˈfjuːz/

  • 1

    to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand

    • It confused me when I went to the office and nobody was there, but then I realised it was Sunday.
    • "What confuses me is how other insurance companies knew about it," said Zhang, a 26-year-old government employee from Shandong.
  • 2

    To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).

    • People who say "hola" to Italians are confusing Italian with Spanish.
    • Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Saturday questioned Donald Trump’s mental fitness after he appeared to confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when talking about the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. […] “They’re saying he got confused. That he was talking about something else. That he was talking about Nancy Pelosi. He mentioned me multiples times in that scenario,” the former South Carolina governor added.
  • 3

    To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.

    • The dense fog utterly confused traffic on the highway.
  • 4

    datedTo make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.

  • 5

    obsoleteTo rout; discomfit.

  • 6

    To be confused.

confuseadj詞源 2/kənˈfjuːz/

  • 1

    obsoleteSynonym of confused.

    • Moꝛe ouer take away oꝛdre from all thynges / what ſhulde than remayne? certes nothynge finally / except ſome man wolde imagine eftſones / Chaos: whiche of ſome is expounde a cõfuse mixture: […]
    • The 11. article is ſo confuſe that it is harde to bring it into any certeine numbre of demandes.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。