frustrate
英 [frʌ'streɪt; 'frʌs-]
美 ['frʌstret]
- vt. 挫败；阻挠；使感到灰心
- vi. 失败；受挫
- adj. 挫败的；无益的
中文词源
frustrate 挫折来自fraud, 欺骗，伤害。即被欺骗的，被伤害的，受到挫折的。
英文词源
- frustrate
- frustrate: [15] Frustrate comes from Latin frūstrātus ‘disappointed, frustrated’, the past participle of a verb formed from the adverb frūstrā ‘in error, in vain, uselessly’. This was a relative of Latin fraus, which originally meant ‘injury, harm’, hence ‘deceit’ and then ‘error’ (its English descendant, fraud [14], preserves ‘deceit’). Both go back to an original Indo- European *dhreu- which denoted ‘injure’.
=> fraud - frustrate (v.)
- mid-15c., from Latin frustratus, past participle of frustrari "to deceive, disappoint, make vain," from frustra (adv.) "in vain, in error," related to fraus "injury, harm" (see fraud). Related: Frustrated; frustrating.
双语例句
- 1. But this didn't frustrate Einstein. He was content to go as far as he could.
- 但这并没有使爱因斯坦灰心, 他对能够更深入地研究而感到满意.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. Doesn't it frustrate you that audiences in the theatre are so restricted?
- 观众在剧场里要受到如此多的限制，这难道不令人恼火吗？
来自辞典例句
- 3. We will frustrate you, my friends, deep as you think yourselves.
- 我的朋友呀, 尽管你们自以为高深莫测, 我们会挫败你们的.
来自辞典例句
- 4. Before long, this element proliferation began to frustrate the chemists.
- 不久后, 元素的这个增生开始冲击化学家们.
来自辞典例句
- 5. Isabel felt it out of her husband's power to frustrate this faculty.
- 伊莎贝尔发觉,她的丈夫已被这种手腕弄得无可奈何.
来自辞典例句