单词 | frustration |
释义 | frus·tra·tion 1. a. < 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) < 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) < 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. < 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. |
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