1·The myth that labor rates and labor costs are equivalent is supported by business journalists, who frequently confound the two.
劳动力价格和劳动力成本相等的说法得到了商业记者的支持，他们经常混淆这两者。
2·Don't confound the means with the ends.
不要混淆手段与目的。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
3·Its perfume-like packaging should break through the crowded product assortments that can often confound shoppers.
它那类似香水瓶的包装突破了众多产品的分类常规，以至于常常让消费者混淆。
4·At times they go so far as to confound right and wrong and turn things upside down.
他们有时简直要闹到颠倒是非、混淆黑白的程度。
5·Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life, much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.
千万不要混淆信心的试验和生活的操练，许多我们称之为信心的试验不过是生存的必然结果。
1·He is at bottom a deeply old-fashioned Conservative; so old-fashioned, in fact, as to confound the expectations shaped by recent Tory history.
他是一个彻头彻尾、墨守成规的保守派；事实上，他太保守了，可能会挫败托利党近代历史中形成的期望。
2·Firstly, never underestimate the ability of markets to confound investors' expectations.
首先，永远不要低估市场挫败投资者预期的能力。