confusion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 困惑， 糊涂； 混淆； 混乱， 骚乱，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bustle and joy of such an arrival, the many to be talked to, welcomed, encouraged, and variously dispersed and disposed of, produced a noise and confusion which his nerves could not have borne un-der any other cause, nor have endured much longer even for this; but the ways of Hartfield and the feelings of her fa-ther were so respected by Mrs. John Knightley, that in spite of maternal solicitude for the immediate enjoyment of her little ones, and for their having instantly all the liberty and attendance, all the eating and drinking, and sleeping and playing, which they could possibly wish for, without the smallest delay, the children were never allowed to be long a disturbance to him, either in themselves or in any restless attendance on them.
-- Of pride, in-deed, there was, perhaps, scarcely enough; his indifference to a confusion of rank, bordered too much on inelegance of mind.
-- He had no reason to wish his hair longer, to conceal any confusion of face; no reason to wish the money unspent, to improve his spirits.
-- From Frank Churchill's face, where he thought he saw confusion sup-pressed or laughed away, he had involuntarily turned to hers; but she was indeed behind, and too busy with her shawl.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The assemblage belonging to that class of society which casts its thoughts into the form of feeling, and its feelings into the form of commotion set to work with a remarkable confusion of purpose.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowl-edge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists.
-- On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a great measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
-- She was tranquil, yet her tranquillity was evi-dently constrained; and as her confusion had before been adduced as a proof of her guilt, she worked up her mind to an appearance of courage.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew no such troublesome thoughts ever disturbed the brains under the four flaming thatches inthe carriage and, as always when she felt herself different from her neighbors, an irritated confusion fell upon her.
-- A never-ceasing line of army wagons and ambulances,loading and unloading supplies and wounded from the trains, made the mud and confusion worse as they toiled in andstruggled out, drivers swearing, mules plunging and mud spattering for yards.
-- There was confusion on the stairs and light-heartedmerriment, the mingling of girls' fresh voices with the bass notes of their escorts, airy cries of greeting and squeals ofjoy as girls recognized friends from whom they had parted only that afternoon.
-- thought Scarlett indignantly, as Melly smiled in confusion and answered, "Dear me, no, Captain Butler!The hospital committee just had to have us for this booth because at the last minute A pillow case?
-- There was confusion in the ranks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew my way to the Battery, pretty straight, for I had been down there on a Sunday with Joe, and Joe, sitting on an old gun, had told me that when I was 'prentice to him, regularly bound, we would have such Larks there!However, in the confusion of the mist, I found myself at last too far to the right, and consequently had to try back along the river-side, on the bank of loose stones above the mud and the stakes that staked the tide out.
-- Nay, there seemed to be two or more shouts raised together,--if one might judge from a confusion in the sound.
-- The man could not be more particular as to the time at which he saw her (he got into dense confusion when he tried to be), than that it must have been before nine.
-- And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness.
-- Yet Estella was so inseparable from all my restlessness and disquiet of mind, that I really fell into confusion as to the limits of my own part in its production.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On coming in, she curtseyed to Mr. Bounderby, and to his friend Tom Gradgrind, and also to Louisa; but in her confusion unluckily omitted Mrs. Sparsit.
-- Here, a brief press and confusion near the stage, ended in the man himself standing at the orator's side before the concourse.
-- Sparsit received into her mind, set off with such an unavoidable halo of confusion and indistinctness, that when at length he climbed the fence and led his horse away, she was not sure where they were to meet, or when, except that they had said it was to be that night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rest of the party were of the usual materials: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistcoat, on a wedding trip with his young wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the confusion of their fellow-creatures; and a deaf old English mother, tough in travel, with a very decidedly grown-up daughter indeed, which daughter went sketching about the universe in the expectation of ultimately toning herself off into the married state.
-- The affairs of this debtor were perplexed by a partnership, of which he knew no more than that he had invested money in it; by legal matters of assignment and settlement, conveyance here and conveyance there, suspicion of unlawful preference of creditors in this direction, and of mysterious spiriting away of property in that; and as nobody on the face of the earth could be more incapable of explaining any single item in the heap of confusion than the debtor himself, nothing comprehensible could be made of his case.
-- A piece of red cloth with which that phantom had been stiffened in its lifetime was now laid bare, and poked itself up, at the back of the old man's neck, into a confusion of grey hair and rusty stock and buckle which altogether nearly poked his hat off.
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