frustrating的意思|frustrating的解释-里氏词典

frustrating [frʌ'streitiŋ]

a. 使人沮丧的,令人泄气的

I find it frustrating that I can't speak other languages.
我不会说别的语言，感到惘然若失。
After two hours' frustrating delay, our train at last arrived.
经过两小时令人厌烦的耽搁后，我们的火车终于到达了目的地。

frustrating

[ adj ]

discouraging by hindering

<adj.all>

preventing realization or attainment of a desire

<adj.all>

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.

frustrating \frustrating\ n.
an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts.

Syn: frustration, thwarting, foiling.
[WordNet 1.5]

frustrating \frustrating\ adj.
1. preventing realization or attainment of a desire; causing
frustration.

Syn: frustrative, thwarting.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. discouraging. Opposite of {encouraging}.

Syn: disappointing.
[WordNet 1.5]

"Bush knew better than anyone else how frustrating such rumors are and wanted to put them to rest," said an administration official who spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Living in a private home in a big city is not without problems. "You are your own super and are responsible for all the maintenance, and it's difficult, costly and frustrating to get things repaired," says Kassell.
'Michael admits the coal business has been the most frustrating and intractable problem he has ever faced.
He was commenting on Secretary of State James A. Baker III's remarks Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Baker said: "We make a lot of statements and sometimes it is frustrating to think that is really about all we can do.
The crewmen, who come from all over the Soviet Union, have found it frustrating trying to keep up with the momentous changes taking place at home.
The current crisis seems to be leading the president and other top administration officials to distance themselves from the enervating, frustrating day-to-day concerns about terrorism.
"It got pretty frustrating," said Peter Finnerty, a Sea-Land vice president, referring to nearly a dozen failed attempts in Congress to restructure ship subsidies.
The no-peace, no-war situation also leaves Iraq unable to use its only seaports _ deeply frustrating Iraqi rulers who have made renewed shipping a priority.
What's frustrating to many executives is that many companies fought their way back to at least break-even levels after 1986 as weak competitors died and cost-cutting was prevalent.
If a gamble on Ezzoud is a double gamble, then when it comes up it brings double the satisfaction. He is his own man, or horse: abundant with talent, miserly in its deployment: hugely frustrating, proportionately rewarding.
Nor is it on "The Very Best of Bird" (Warner Bros. 2WB 3198), an essential but frustrating double album that has only 26 of Parker's 33 Dial sides.
"The most frustrating part is that the two companies have been in suspense for so many years," he says.
The included applications are generally quite good, though the otherwise strong word processor takes a page-by-page approach to formatting that can be frustrating.
"It's very frustrating for a writer to have his work translated by other people.
Disputes over property rights, bureaucracy and complex planning regulations are presenting developers with a frustrating obstacle course.
O.J.'s Airport Dash Might Fail These Days TIGHTENED airport security is frustrating many business travelers used to far friendlier times.
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.
Also, he could force new elections early next year by frustrating the procedures for the election of the president of the republic in March.
If all of this is frustrating and annoying to Ronald Reagan, it is equally so to Mikhail Gorbachev.
But there is no defensible argument for frustrating the healing action of the market and deliberately spreading an epidemic of insolvency through a state's financial system.
He was relieved to be playing at all after enduring one of those frustrating injury spells that so often end the careers of promising athletes. It has been a good week for Wimbledon and for tennis.
"It's not bad over there but you dream too much about making a career and all that," said Paessler. "Back here, it's more secure." Living in a small Bavarian village with his family proved frustrating.
Although we were successful with Mr. Cesar, the prospect of once again encountering the expense, criticism and scrutiny is a frustrating one, and it may be at a price many are increasingly unwilling to pay.
Jacqueline Schachter, a clinical psychologist in New York, who specializes in phobias, says she believes marketing is important but "frustrating" because she has no training in it and doesn't want to be accused of hype.
All of this must have been enormously frustrating to Mr. Katzenstein, who went to Sony with degrees in business and computer science and was raring to invent another Walkman.
People find it "chronically frustrating" to give up the food they like, and this also makes them more apt to die tragically.
"It's extremely frustrating," Arthur Davidsen of Johns Hopkins University, said of the latest problems.
Secretary Watkins and President Bush have been careful not to let any note of sacrifice enter their calls for conservation, frustrating activists who want more vigorous steps.
"It's frustrating for us to think perhaps we've got this close and can't go any further," Ms. Doel said.
This attitude is particularly frustrating for well-meaning liberal businessmen, who believe that economic upliftment and political advancement go hand in hand.

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