Verb:
be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;These questions confuse even the experts
This question completely threw me
This question befuddled even the teacher
mistake one thing for another;you are confusing me with the other candidate
I mistook her for the secretary
puzzle，bewilder，confuse，embarrass，perplex，baffle，confound，distract这些动词均有“使困惑、迷惑、糊涂、伤脑筋”之意。
puzzle侧重使人难于理解、困惑、伤脑筋。
bewilder语气强烈，指因迷不解或惊愕而慌乱，不知所措，无法清醒地思考。
confuse语气较弱，指由于混淆、混乱而糊涂。
embarrass常指因处境或困难问题而感到窘迫、局促不安或焦急而不知所措。
perplex除困惑外，还含焦虑或缺乏把握之意，因而难于作出决定，无从下手处理。
baffle语气最强，多指遇见奇怪情景或复杂困难情况时所产生的惶恐困惑心理。
confound常指人惊慌失措和狼狈不堪。
distract主要用于注意力分散、思想矛盾或过分激动时产生的昏乱。
Confound you!混蛋！Confound it!该死！讨厌！…
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动词85%,名词15%
用作及物动词Don't confound the means with the ends.不要把手段和目的混淆起来。
To confound two things means not to be able to tell them apart.混淆两件事物的意思是说没能把它们区分开来。 If she insists you must solve your issue alone, then she could be a “ Confounder Boss” who ignores problems, which makes them worse.
如果她坚持你必须独自解决问题，那么她就是一个忽视问题的糊涂上司，这会让问题更加严重。 hxen
The main approach to solve this problem is to stratify the population studied through taking the confounder as the stratifying variable.
解决这一问题的主要方法是将混杂因子作为分层变量把被研究群体分层。 cnki