| 单词 | confusion |
| 释义 | con·fu·sion 1. < the defeat and confusion of Carthage in the war with Rome > < confusion to such a tyrant king > 2. a. < his sister [was] overcome with confusion and unable to lift up her eyes — Jane Austen > b. < slowly emerging from the mental confusion which followed the fall — Havelock Ellis > < present intellectual confusion and moral chaos of the world — John Dewey > 3. a. < the confusion of tongues at the tower of Babel > < a confusion of history and poetry in his work > b. < a formal confusion of poetry and painting — Irving Babbitt > < confusion between public and private morality — D.W.Brogan > 4. < a luxuriant crop of very long hair which … got itself into great confusion — W.H.Hudson > < the confusion of hills typical of glacial regions — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < the dark confusion of German history — A.L.Guérard > < the long uncertainty and bloody confusion that attended the breakdown of the Roman Empire — Lewis Mumford > 5. law a. b. c. Roman & civil law Synonyms: < the disarray in which the Germans found themselves … following on the capitulation of their Italian ally — Times Literary Supplement > disorder indicates a want of order through wonted neglect of it or through some break or interruption in orderly processes or arrangements < our last chance to substitute order for disorder, government for anarchy — E.B.White > < standing between the older America and the new, with the foundations disintegrating under his feet, he confused the disorder in his own mind with the disorder in the external world — V.L.Parrington > clutter implies a confused litter of the miscellaneous and adventitious, impeding free activity or clear perception < what a mess this set is in! if there's one thing I hate … it's clutter — Edna St. V. Millay > < this essay clears one irrelevant topic from the clutter of symbolist criticism — Times Literary Supplement > jumble suggests a heaping together of many incongruous things so that free use, enjoyment, or perception of any individual item is made difficult < the ruptured ambulance convoy … a jumble of overturned wagons, spilled pungent powders — Irwin Shaw > < a vast jumble of incoherent erudition on which he drew for purely poetic effects — T.S.Eliot > pi, in this sense from printing, sometimes designates a confusion or disarrangement of small items hard to classify or order like miscellaneous type. snarl is likely to suggest a knotted entanglement hard to unravel, resolve, or sort out < parachute cords in a snarl > < a snarl of traffic at the bridge entrance > muddle suggests a litter or welter so extreme that making order is impossible and hence a situation marked by bungling, uncertainty, and feeble, dubious, ill-directed expediency < as … they all had to live in one small room and the kitchen, the place usually looked a muddle — Nigel Balchin > < the effort to make a distinction … produced such a muddle that it was dropped — G.B.Shaw > chaos suggests uttermost confusion, with no order, arrangement, regularity, sequence, or predictability; it may suggest primordial formlessness or complete disintegration < disorder to the point of chaos — B.N.Cardozo > < back not merely to the dark ages but from cosmos to chaos — B.M.Baruch > < such social chaos … as to make civilization impossible — Blanton Fortson > Synonym: see in addition commotion. |
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