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 frustrated [frʌ'streitid,'frʌ-]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 失败的, 落空的

  1. Film directors are sometimes frustrated actors.
    电影导演有时是不得志的演员。
  2. I'm feeling rather frustrated in my present job; I need a change.
    我感到现在干得很不顺心,需要换一换工作。


frustrated
[ adj ]
disappointingly unsuccessful
<adj.all>
disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitionstheir foiled attempt to capture Calais
many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers
his best efforts were thwarted


Frustrate \Frus"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frustrated}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Frustrating}.]
1. To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose;
to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a
plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or
purpose.

Shall the adversary thus obtain
His end and frustrate thine ? --Milton.

2. To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no
effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

Syn: To balk; thwart; foil; baffle; defeat.

  1. "We must say we find ourselves frustrated and concerned at this point," Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Linn Williams told reporters after the talks.
  2. But the creditors, who range from aircraft giants like Airbus Industrie and Boeing to mom-and-pop travel agencies, have grown increasingly frustrated and impatient about getting at least some of their money.
  3. "They're very frustrated; they've gotten no response whatsoever," said Rep. David Nagle, Democrat from Iowa, a major source of grain exports.
  4. They said President Reagan hasn't resolved longstanding rivalries among the CIA, the NSA, the Pentagon and the State Department that have frustrated efforts to develop comprehensive security plans in Moscow and elsewhere.
  5. And are you confident that you'll get him? A: I've been frustrated that he's been in power this long _ extraordinarily frustrated.
  6. And are you confident that you'll get him? A: I've been frustrated that he's been in power this long _ extraordinarily frustrated.
  7. We're frustrated, as you can tell.
  8. The title comes from Gaudino's frustrated attempts in 1989 to investigate a Marseille building scandal.
  9. Then came "sex, lies and videotape," in which she played the frustrated wife of a philandering husband.
  10. Nevertheless, two sources said Dennis had grown frustrated with Thornburgh's management style, which had centralized decision making in the attorney general's office.
  11. Understandably, Republicans who thought it would work as well for them in 1990 were angry and frustrated by his retreat.
  12. We understand very well that you are angry, frustrated and disappointed" at not being able to talk to them, the voice said.
  13. Pet owners, however, frustrated by years of one-way conversations, often take a less cynical view.
  14. He said attempts to train in public parks, including London's Hyde Park, were frustrated by police who accused them of creating a disturbance and ordered them to move.
  15. The head of West Virginia's third-leading coal producer, frustrated that UMW officials won't answer his phone calls, says he blames the shutdown on the union.
  16. Now software companies say they're frustrated that Fujitsu may be getting access to the very IBM code they haven't been able to see.
  17. Mr. Jacobs has long been frustrated at the doubts over Minstar.
  18. I'm nervous, sensitive and frustrated in traffic.
  19. But Benson said the situation in New York was complicated by the involvement of local police _ "very unusual in an airline crash," he said _ who reached the scene soon after the accident and were frustrated by the pilot's departure.
  20. Officials of both countries _ notably Pentagon and State Department officers sympathetic to Portugal's requests and frustrated by budget strictures _ have said the dispute is purely financial.
  21. The Soviet legislature approved a 1990 budget yesterday that halves its huge deficit with cuts in defense spending and capital outlays while striving to improve supplies to frustrated consumers.
  22. Thailand was frustrated by the failure of the first council meeting, and said it will play host to another meeting only if it is clear beforehand that it will result in agreements.
  23. Former Communist Party chief Alexander Dubcek was quoted Sunday as saying the young people now demonstrating against Communist authorities are frustrated by a political and economic system that offers them no future.
  24. Prior to the vote, she told a local newspaper she was frustrated with trying to get businesses and restaurants to impose voluntary restrictions.
  25. This alliance among Congress, the news media and special interest groups frustrated his attempts to bring spending under control, Reagan said.
  26. Wracked by crushing indebtedness and recession for seven years, the continent that began the 1980s in the flush of a democratic rennaissance is ending the decade weary and frustrated.
  27. In the city of Pereira, 110 miles west of Bogota, police frustrated an attempt to kill the mayor and a city councilman, Radio Caracol reported.
  28. He was the taciturn middle child of a Rhode Island machine-tool-factory credit manager and his wife, a frustrated artist and a Christian Scientist.
  29. For liberal opinion, abortion is justified whenever the continuation of a pregnancy would have an especially bad effect on other lives by frustrating or wasting them, or would result in a deeply frustrated life for the child itself if it were born.
  30. In Atlanta last month, frustrated Coke marketers shook their heads as they watched videotapes of the Massachusetts boy appearing on a local news show, and worried that the publicity might damage the image of its flagship brand, Coca-Cola Classic.
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