One way to hold it: things that should be in separate piles have been poured together. Now nothing lines up — you cannot tell which is which, you cannot see what is going on, and you cannot pick out what to do next. The mess can be inside your head, between two people, or right there in the room.
可以想成本來該分成好幾堆的東西被倒在一起了。分不出哪個是哪個，看不出現在是什麼狀況，也挑不出下一步該做什麼。這團「混在一起」有時在腦袋裡（我聽不懂）、有時在兩樣東西之間（把 A 當成 B）、有時就攤在眼前（現場亂成一片）——confusion 的幾個意思，就像都是這團混雜出現在不同的地方。
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
confusionnoun/kənˈfjuːʒən/
- 1
A lack of clarity or order.
- But much of the federal workforce is located outside the nation’s capital, and Trump’s offer was met with confusion and skepticism in many of those offices.
- 2
The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
- Forgive these wild and wandering cries, Confusions of a wasted youth; Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise.
- 3
The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
- Now (exc. in Nautical language, see b) it is only dialectal or an illiterate substitute for lie, its identity of form with the past tense of the latter no doubt accounting largely for the confusion.
- Confusion of sex and gender continues when she begins to address what the sex-change operation achieves.
- 4
Lack of understanding due to dementia.
- 5
archaicA state of shame or embarrassment.
- Lady Bellaston fixed her eyes on Sophia whilst she spoke these words. To which that poor young lady, having her face overspread with blushes and confusion, answered, in a stammering voice […]
- "[…] In going to Mr Carlyle you have done the best thing possible; you have put your sister into the care of the shrewdest man in London." Whereat the object of this quite unexpected eulogy found himself becoming covered with modest confusion.
- 6
rareA group of wildebeest.
- A group of wildebeest is called a confusion.
- The runners are a confusion of wildebeest, fighting their way to the front.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。