| 释义 |
bewilder, v.|bɪˈwɪldə(r)|
[f. be- 2 + wilder, to lead one astray, refl. to stray, to wander (found 1613 and common in 17th c.).]
1. lit. ‘To lose in pathless places, to confound for want of a plain road.’ J. arch.
1685[see next]. 1752Johnson Rambl. No. 195 ⁋3 He was so much bewildered in the enormous extent of the town. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) I. 36 An unfrequented wood, in which they might probably be bewildered till night. 1856Kane Arct. Exp. II. xxviii. 282 The berg that had bewildered our helmsman.
2. fig. To confuse in mental perception, to perplex, confound; to cause mental aberration.
1684Charnock Attrib. God (1834) I. 37 We must come to something at length..or else be bewildered. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 26 Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools. 1742H. Baker Microsc. i. xv. 64 Let no..honest Observer..bewilder his Brains in following such idle Imaginations. 1823T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 372 A vain and useless faculty, given to bewilder, and not to guide us. |