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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, it is a second confusion of tongues, like Babel.
-- The wildest confusion set in among the ranks, and numbers of the animals were drowned in the passage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It required some judgment to do it without butting the inner hall-door open, and in the consequent mental confusion and physical darkness slipping down the kitchen stairs.
-- In a word, it was represented (Clennam called to mind, alone in the ticking parlour) that many people select their models, much as the painters, just now mentioned, select theirs; and that, whereas in the Royal Academy some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer will annually be found embodying all the cardinal virtues, on account of his eyelashes, or his chin, or his legs (thereby planting thorns of confusion in the breasts of the more observant students of nature), so, in the great social Exhibition, accessories are often accepted in lieu of the internal character.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beth was worried by the confusion of her closet and the difficulty of learning three or four songs at once, and Amy deeply regretted the dam-age done her frock, for Katy Brown's party was to be the next day and now like Flora McFlimsey, she had 'nothing to wear'.
-- 'I'll try, but it was a very ungentlemanly thing to do, I didn't think you could be so sly and malicious, Laurie,' re-plied Meg, trying to hid her maidenly confusion under a gravely reproachful air.
-- In the kitchen reigned confusion and despair.
-- Everyone was too busy with their own affairs to help her, and the little girls were only hindrances, for the dears fussed and chattered like so many magpies, making a great deal of confusion in their artless efforts to preserve the most perfect order.
-- She upset the tray of needles, forgot the silesia was to be 'twilled' till it was cut off, gave the wrong change, and covered herself with confusion by asking for lavender ribbon at the calico counter.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- * * * Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal" (sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A.D. 1839.
-- But in the foamy confusion of their mixed and struggling hosts, the marksmen could not always hit their mark; and this brought about new revelations of the incredible ferocity of the foe.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The steady countenance which Miss Lucas had com-manded in telling her story, gave way to a momentary confusion here on receiving so direct a reproach; though, as it was no more than she expected, she soon regained her composure, and calmly replied: 'Why should you be surprised, my dear Eliza?
-- But wishes were vain, or at least could only serve to amuse her in the hurry and confusion of the following hour.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing can describe the confusion of thought which I felt when I sank into the water; for though I swam very well, yet I could not deliver myself from the waves so as to draw breath, till that wave having driven me, or rather carried me, a vast way on towards the shore, and having spent it-self, went back, and left me upon the land almost dry, but half dead with the water I took in.
-- This confusion of my thoughts kept me awake all night; but in the morning I fell asleep; and having, by the amuse-ment of my mind, been as it were tired, and my spirits exhausted, I slept very soundly, and waked much better composed than I had ever been before.
-- It is not easy to imagine what confusion this sight put me into, especially seeing them come on my side of the is-land, and so near to me; but when I considered their coming must be always with the current of the ebb, I began after-wards to be more sedate in my mind, being satisfied that I might go abroad with safety all the time of the flood of tide, if they were not on shore before; and having made this ob-servation, I went abroad about my harvest work with the more composure.
-- And I cannot see the least use that the greatest knowledge of the disputed points of religion, which have made such confusion in the world, would have been to us, if we could have obtained it.
-- I cannot express the confusion I was in, though the joy of seeing a ship, and one that I had reason to believe was manned by my own countrymen, and consequently friends, was such as I cannot describe; but yet I had some secret doubts hung about me - I cannot tell from whence they came - bidding me keep upon my guard.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His manly beauty and more than common gracefulness were instantly the theme of general admiration, and the laugh which his gallantry raised against Marianne received particular spirit from his exterior attractions. Marianne herself had seen less of his person than the rest, for the confusion which crimsoned over her face, on his lifting her up, had robbed her of the power of regarding him after their entering the house.
-- Her astonishment and confusion were very great on his so sudden appearance.
-- But though SHE never spoke of it out of her own family, Elinor could see its influence on her mind, in the something like confusion of countenance with which she entered, and an attempt at cordiality in her behaviour to herself.
-- "She taxed me with the offence at once, and my confusion may be guessed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a look of confusion and pain in her face.
-- His great confusion she instantly perceived.
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