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

• 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。
• These results posed, for Mr. Heckman, a confounding intellectual puzzle.
  这些研究结果向赫克曼提出了一个令人困惑的关于智力的问题。
• Further, the absolute concentrations of these metabolites in EPS appear to be independent of age, increasing the potential utility of these markers due to elimination of age as a confounding variable.
  另外，EPS中这三种代谢物的绝对浓度看起来与年龄无关的。由于不需要年龄作为混杂变量，增加了这些标记物的潜在效用。
• But the validity of such studies was questionable because of confounding factors, including smoking, which contributes to both periodontal disease and cancer.
  不过这类研究的可信性是令人质疑的，因为存在着混杂因素，其中包括吸烟，牙周疾病和癌症都能由吸烟导致。
• Caffeine intake was associated with a significantly lower risk for AD, independently of other possible confounding variables.
  咖啡因摄入量与AD风险降低明显相关，不依赖于其他伴随因子。
• We used Cox regression models to estimate the risk of cancer and adjust for potential confounding factors.
  我们使用Cox回归模型来估计罹患癌症的风险并根据潜在的混淆因素进行校正。
• 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%。
• Although statistical modeling could control for these measured baseline differences, the potential for confounding by unmeasured variables existed.
  虽然应用统计模型能控制这些基线评估上的差异，但仍然存在一些无法测定的变量导致潜在的混杂。
• 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。
• He accepted that there was potential for a confounding bias in such observational registries.
  他认为在这种观察性研究中存在着混杂偏倚。