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’. => fraud
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.
实用例句
1. But this didn't frustrate Einstein. He was content to go as far as he could.
但这并没有使爱因斯坦灰心, 他对能够更深入地研究而感到满意.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. Doesn't it frustrate you that audiences in the theatre are so restricted?
观众在剧场里要受到如此多的限制，这难道不令人恼火吗？
来自辞典例句
3. We will frustrate you, my friends, deep as you think yourselves.
我的朋友呀, 尽管你们自以为高深莫测, 我们会挫败你们的.
来自辞典例句
4. Before long, this element proliferation began to frustrate the chemists.
不久后, 元素的这个增生开始冲击化学家们.
来自辞典例句
5. Isabel felt it out of her husband's power to frustrate this faculty.
