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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general watched Gania's confusion intently, and clearly did not like it.
-- There was no confusion in her face; a little surprise, perhaps, but that was all.
-- Nastasia Philipovna looked surprised, and smiled, but evidently concealed something beneath her smile and with some confusion and a glance at Gania she left the room.
-- Neither his dirty boots, nor his wide-brimmed hat, nor his sleeveless cloak, nor his evident confusion of man-ner, produced the least impression upon her.
-- She had quite recov-ered her temper; in fact, from certain signs, it was fair to conclude that she was delighted to see this joke going so far; and a careful observer might have remarked that her satis-faction dated from the moment when the fact of the prince's confusion became apparent to all.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Cebriones seeing the Trojans in confusion said to Hector from his place beside him, 'Hector, here are we two fighting on the extreme wing of the battle, while the other Trojans are in pell-mell rout, they and their horses.
-- If, then, you are speak-ing the truth and mean what you say, go among the rank and file of the gods, and tell Iris and Apollo lord of the bow, that I want them Iris, that she may go to the Achaean host and tell Neptune to leave off fighting and go home, and Apollo, that he may send Hector again into battle and give him fresh strength; he will thus forget his present suffer-ings, and drive the Achaeans back in confusion till they fall among the ships of Achilles son of Peleus.
-- As locusts flying to a river before the blast of a grass fire the flame comes on and on till at last it overtakes them and they huddle into the water even so was the eddying stream of Xanthus filled with the uproar of men and horses, all strug-gling in confusion before Achilles.
-- It may have been a monument to some one long since dead, or it may have been used as a doubling-post in days gone by; now, how-ever, it has been fixed on by Achilles as the mark round which the chariots shall turn; hug it as close as you can, but as you stand in your chariot lean over a little to the left; urge on your right-hand horse with voice and lash, and give him a loose rein, but let the left-hand horse keep so close in, that the nave of your wheel shall almost graze the post; but mind the stone, or you will wound your horses and break your chariot in pieces, which would be sport for others but confusion for yourself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behind him as he was halfway up the inn steps he heard a sudden yell of rage, rising sharply out of the confusion of cries, and a sounding smack in someone's face.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then cutting like a knife across the confusion came the crack of a revolver.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still there is so much obscu-rity in the Indian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful.
-- When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New York), the English, and the French, all gave ap-pellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gave different names to their enemies, but frequently to them-selves, the cause of the confusion will be understood.
-- The colors of the war-paint had blended in dark confusion about his fierce countenance, and rendered his swarthy lineaments still more savage and repulsive than if art had attempted an effect which had been thus produced by chance.
-- 'Here is some confusion in names between us, Le Re-nard,' said Duncan, hoping to provoke a discussion.
-- Seizing Cora by the rich tresses which fell in confusion about her form, he tore her from her frantic hold, and bowed her down with brutal violence to her knees.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She took advantage of his confusion to escape, and ran up the stairs to the studio.
-- He seemed to see his fellow-creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion of ridiculous, sordid happenings, a fit subject for laughter, and yet it made him sorrowful to laugh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A third, who in the general confusion could secure no other listener, fastened herself upon a young woman still unmarried who happened to be amongst them, and conjured her, as she valued her own peace of mind and happiness to profit by this solemn occasion, to take example from the weakness of Mrs Quilp, and from that time forth to direct her whole thoughts to taming and subduing the rebellious spirit of man.
-- 'And what,' said Dick, looking at the confusion about him, 'what do you mean by moving the goods?'
-- She felt some uneasiness at the anxiety of these men, increased by the recollection of their whispering together down stairs and their slight confusion when she awoke, nor was she quite free from a misgiving that they were not the fittest companions she could have stumbled on.
-- From all these mute signs and tokens of her presence, he naturally glanced at Barbara herself, who sat as mute as they, shelling peas into a dish; and just when Kit was looking at her eyelashes and wondering quite in the simplicity of his heart what colour her eyes might be, it perversely happened that Barbara raised her head a little to look at him, when both pair of eyes were hastily withdrawn, and Kit leant over his plate, and Barbara over her pea-shells, each in extreme confusion at having been detected by the other.
-- His mother was not a little startled on learning what service was required of her, and presently fell into a confusion of ideas, of which the most prominent were that it was a great honour and dignity to ride in a post-chaise, and that it was a moral impossibility to leave the children behind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He pitied her on account of the evident confusion that reigned in her head.
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