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One way to hold it: you are heading somewhere and a wall goes up. The plan does not fail slowly — it is stopped, and you are left standing in front of the thing that stopped you. English uses the same verb for the wall's work (blocking the plan) and for what that leaves inside you (being stuck and fed up).
可以想成你正往前走，前面忽然立起一道牆。計畫不是慢慢失敗，而是被擋下來，你就卡在那道牆前面。英文用同一個動詞講兩邊：…更多收起
可以想成你正往前走，前面忽然立起一道牆。計畫不是慢慢失敗，而是被擋下來，你就卡在那道牆前面。英文用同一個動詞講兩邊：牆做的事（把計畫擋掉），以及卡住的人心裡留下的東西（動彈不得、越想越煩）。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
frustrateverb詞源 1/fɹʌˈstɹeɪt/
- 1
To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
- It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.
- 2
To hinder or thwart.
- My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.
- Perhaps it was the too-tooing of the youth on the coach horn which frustrated the proposal, and made it appear ludicrous rather than insultive to her ears.
- 3
To cause stress or annoyance.
- This test frustrates me because if I fail, it'll destroy my grade.
frustrateadj詞源 2
- 1
Ineffectual; useless; fruitless.
- Our frustrate search.
- In all eternity I had one chance One few years' term of gracious human life […] And this sole chance was frustrate from my birth A mockery, a delusion; […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。