• vt. 挫敗；阻撓；使感到灰心
• vi. 失敗；受挫
• adj. 挫敗的；無益的

來自fraud, 欺騙，傷害。即被欺騙的，被傷害的，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.

但這并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?

觀眾在劇場里要受到如此多的限制，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.

不久后, 元素的這個增生開始沖擊化學家們.

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