If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
例句
He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis...他對人質(zhì)危機的冷靜處理一時讓批評者們驚訝不已。The choice of Governor may confound us all.州長的選擇可能會讓我們所有人感到困惑。