confused
英 [kən'fjuːzd]
美 [kən'fjuzd]
- adj. 混乱している；混同している；混濁している
- v. confused（confusedの過去形）
英語の語源
- confused (adj.)
- early 14c., "discomfited, routed, defeated" (of groups), serving at first as an alternative past participle of confound, as Latin confusus was the past participle of confundere "to pour together, mix, mingle; to join together;" hence, figuratively, "to throw into disorder; to trouble, disturb, upset." The Latin past participle also was used as an adjective, with reference to mental states, "troubled, embarrassed," and this passed into Old French as confus "dejected, downcast, undone, defeated, discomfited in mind or feeling," which passed to Middle English as confus (14c.; for example Chaucer's "I am so confus, that I may not seye"), which then was assimilated to the English past participle pattern by addition of -ed. Of individuals, "discomfited in mind, perplexed," from mid-14c.; of ideas, speech, thought, etc., from 1610s. By mid-16c., the word seems to have been felt as a pure adj., and it evolved a back-formed verb in confuse. Few English etymologies are more confused.
例文
- 1. She had a confused idea of life in general.
- 総じて、彼女は生活に非常に困惑している。
- 2.This policy，they say，is at best confused and at worst non-existent.
- この政策は良いことには混乱していると言われているが、悪いことには虚構だと言われている。
- 3.Things were happening too quickly and Brian was confused .
- 事が早すぎてブライアンを混乱させた。
- 4.Russia 's efforts to attract investment have been halting and confused .
- ロシアは投資誘致に躊躇しており、混乱している。
- 5.He 's in hospital,and in a confused state of mind.
- 彼は入院したが、意識はまだはっきりしていない。