frustrate
英 [frʌ'streɪt; 'frʌs-]
美 ['frʌstret]
- vt. 挫敗；阻撓；使感到灰心
- vi. 失敗；受挫
- adj. 挫敗的；無益的
中文詞源
frustrate 挫折來自fraud, 欺騙，傷害。即被欺騙的，被傷害的，受到挫折的。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. But this didn't frustrate Einstein. He was content to go as far as he could.
- 但這並沒有使愛因斯坦灰心, 他對能夠更深入地研究而感到滿意.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. Doesn't it frustrate you that audiences in the theatre are so restricted?
- 觀眾在劇場裏要受到如此多的限製，這難道不令人惱火嗎？
來自辭典例句
- 3. We will frustrate you, my friends, deep as you think yourselves.
- 我的朋友呀, 盡管你們自以為高深莫測, 我們會挫敗你們的.
來自辭典例句
- 4. Before long, this element proliferation began to frustrate the chemists.
- 不久後, 元素的這個增生開始衝擊化學家們.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Isabel felt it out of her husband's power to frustrate this faculty.
- 伊莎貝爾發覺,她的丈夫已被這種手腕弄得無可奈何.
來自辭典例句