"There was more said. Levison, in a shameful sort of manner, asked his uncle, would he let him have five or ten pounds? Sir Peter seemed angry, and asked, what had he done with the fifty-pound note he had made him a present of only the previous morning? Levison replied that he had sent that away to a brother officer, to whom he was in debt. Sir Peter refused to believe it, and said he had more likely squandered it upon some disgraceful folly. Levison denied that he had; but he looked confused, indeed, his matter altogether was confused that morning."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
All of this naturally tended to confuse me, and it was only by determined effort that I maintained any degree of coolness. Of course they did not intend to confuse me. Nothing was, I dare say, further from their thoughts. But they were women; and it never occurs to a woman to think before she speaks.英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
Confusedly. A trisyllable; as in ii. 161 below, and in the Lay, iii. 337: "And helms and plumes, confusedly tossed."英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
Near Wilton sweet, huge heaps of stones are found, But so confused, that neither any eye Can count them just, nor Reason reason try, What force brought them to so unlikely ground.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
"And I am so convinced of the contrary" . He became confused, turned red, and then burst out into a forced laugh. The captain took his arm and led him aside; they whispered together for a long time. I had arrived in a fairly pacific frame of mind, but all this was beginning to drive me furious. The doctor came up to me. "Listen," he said, with manifest uneasiness, "you have surely forgotten their conspiracy! I do not know how to load a pistol, but in this case. You are a strange man!英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
A confused chorus answered him affirmatively, and he immediately arranged Clayton in one corner of the room with his serious attendants on one side, and Raines, grave to solemnity, on the other. Easter's mother and her assistants came in from the kitchen, and the doors were filled with faces. Above, the tramping of feet became more hurried; below, all stood with expectant faces turned to the rude staircase. Clayton's heart began to throb, and a strange light brightened under Raines's heavy brows.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Europa》
Was she confused? The campus office said she was confused about what happened.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》