| 单词 | frustrate |
| 释义 | frus·trate I. 1. a. < frustrated by army routine — Darrell Berrigan > < frustrated by a blank wall of suspicion … and bureaucratic inertia — H.W.Carter > b. < brought the short story to a harsh perfection that frustrates contemporary short-story writers — Alfred Kazin > < the story of a personality frustrated by the practical temper of America — J.D.Hart > 2. a. < nature … supports as well as frustrates our lofty aspirations — H.J.Muller > < illness frustrated his plans for college > < did all they could to frustrate … the inquiry — William McFee > b. Synonyms: < if waves of black pessimism swept over him in those unhappy later years when his ambitions were hopelessly frustrated, there was provocation enough — V.L.Parrington > thwart may suggest a defeating, checking, or frustrating by obstructing one's course with some block or barrier < his hatred of pioneer life and all its conditions, those conditions that were thwarting his creative life — Van Wyck Brooks > < I was anxious about her but I did not like to thwart her in her present mood — Rose Macaulay > balk likewise indicates frustrating by obstacles and obstructions, especially those that hamper or hobble < these regulations frequently balked the efforts of our Intelligence Corps to pry vital information from prisoners — Saturday Review > < I've always been balked or bullied out of having what I wanted — Ellen Glasgow > foil indicates checking or defeating with galling or disheartening discomfiture < foiled, he sank down again — Robert Browning > baffle indicates frustrating defeat by something confusing, perplexing, and vexing < such knotty problems of alleys … such sphinx's riddles of streets … as must, I conceive, baffle the au̇dacity of porters — Thomas De Quincey > < all these complexities and bonds that baffled him — James Boyd > outwit and circumvent are more likely to stress the fact of defeat or escape by greater wit, craft, ingenuity, perception, or stratagem and less likely to suggest resulting disposition or attitude < the skill with which she had hoodwinked and outwitted every statesman in Europe during fifty years — J.R.Green > < the Defiance was an opposition boat and had been refused a license to carry passengers on San Francisco Bay. But her captain had a plan to circumvent the dastardly port officials — Julian Dana > II. 1. a. < tore at the lock, frustrate in fear — G.D.Brown > < frustrate and unhappy lovers — Elinor Wylie > b. < turned a frustrate eye upon me > < gave him a frustrate look > 2. < makes love itself seem frustrate, vulgar, or disgusting — W.Y.Tindall > < his frustrate and unhopeful quest — M.G.Bishop > III. |
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