英语词汇“frustration”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	frustration
释义	frus·tra·tion \(ˌ)frəˈstrāshən\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English frustracioun, from Latin frustration-, frustratio deception, disappointment, frustration, from frustratus + -ion-, -io -ion 1. a. : the act of frustrating < will make parliamentary alliances … with a view to obstruction and frustration — A.E.Stevenson b. 1900 > < the frustration of creative instinct is a notorious evil of the machine age — Times Literary Supplement > b. (1) : the condition or an instance of being frustrated in some purpose : disappointment, defeat < cruel frustrations had eaten away that confidence — Oscar Handlin > < you've never experienced frustration until you watch a one-channel television set — Goodman Ace > < life became for him a series of great frustrations > < the life of the admiral closed on a note of frustration — S.E.Morison > (2) : a deep chronic sense or condition of insecurity, discouragement, and dissatisfaction arising from thwarted desires, inner conflicts, or other unresolved problems < frustration brought about by the constant inner conflict between the desire to possess and the yearning to renounce — Orient Book World > < the child seeks to retaliate for frustration by biting — G.S.Blum > < loneliness and frustration: those are two constant themes in American literature — Malcolm Cowley > < the gusto and excitement concealed a certain ominous shallowness and frustration — Richard Watts > < a lifelong frustration — H.S.Canby > c. : something that frustrates < as a work of serious reference the volume is full of frustrations — Saturday Review > < escape lodges, women's clubs, bridge clubs, and other modern frustrations — Current Biography > < postwar Britain was a frustration … to the advertising man — E.S.Turner > 2. : a doctrine in the law of contracts whereby courts depart from the general rule that impossibility does not excuse performance and does not terminate contracts and instead adjust equitably conflicting rights as if the original state of affairs had continued although the value of an expected performance has been destroyed by fortuitous circumstances which the parties were not negligent in failing to guard against or by a radical change in the state of affairs (as war, government orders, cancellation of unique events) which the parties were not bound to have foreseen
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