frustrate

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。

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’.
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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.

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.

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？

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.

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.

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.