The chancellor can point to a career built on breaking rules and confounding expectations .

默克尔可以将事业建立在违反规章制度和混淆的期望上。

Clouds of gas and dust stand between us and galaxy x , confounding telescopes .

星系与我们之间的云气及尘云混淆了望远镜的视线。

Meanwhile , consumption has steadily fallen as a percentage of economic growth , confounding official policy .

同时，混杂着官方政策的消费贡献占经济增长的百分比在持续下降，

The study sounds simple , but the design of the experiments was actually somewhat complex , because the researchers had to overcome a number of confounding variables .

这个实验听起来很简单，但是实验的设计确实有一定程度的复杂性，因为研究人员不得不克服一些混淆变量。

If the intricacies of facebook and twitter are confounding or if you still haven 't figured out exactly how to type a text message yourself , you may be a good candidate for remote monitoring software .

如果facebook和twitter上错综复杂的内容让你混淆或者你还不能自己输入一条文本短信，你可能是这些远程监视软件的适用者。