1. The upper texts often became a confusing mixture of sacred and secular—and even anticlerical—poems, indicating its intended performance in courtly as well as ecclesiastical settings. 前半部分通常是圣诗或世俗诗甚至是反教会诗的结合，表明其通常是在宫廷或宗教场所演奏的。
2. By remembering this, we shall be saved from the besetting danger of confusing the study of literature with the study of philology, rhetoric, and even literary technique. 只有记住这点，我们才不至于陷入混淆文学研究与语言学、修辞学、甚至文学技巧研究的险境中。
3. "The European Commission is confusing speed with haste, " says Nicolas Véron of Bruegel, a think-tank in Brussels. “欧盟委员会对匆忙上阵有些困惑”，一位布鲁塞尔Bruegel智囊团的成员NicolasVeron说。”
4. Not only are women not thinking about heart disease, their symptoms are often atypical, confusing both patients and physicians. 不是女性不考虑心脏病，而是她们的症状经常是非典型的，病人和医生都经常迷惑。
5. This is a strange and confusing age. There are so many paradoxes in our time that we hardly know who we are, where we are and where to go. 这是一个奇怪而令人困惑的年代。我们这个时代有如此多的尴尬事，以至于我们不知道自己是谁、身在何方、去向何方。
