chagrining

v. 使懊恼, 使懊丧, 使悔恨( chagrin的现在分词 )

词形变化

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别名

chagrinning

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    present participle and gerund of chagrin

adj.
  1. 1.

    Annoying, vexing.

    1780, George Washington, Letter to the President of Congress, in Jared Sparks (ed.), The Writings of George Washington, New York: Harper, 1847, Volume 7, pp. 11-12, Nothing can be conceived more chagrining, than for an officer to see himself destitute of every necessary, while another, not only in the service of the same government, engaged in defending the same cause, but even in the same regiment, and sometimes standing by his side in the same company, is decently if not amply provided.

    1789, Robert Burns, Letter to Frances Anna Dunlop, dated January 1789, in William Wallace (ed.), Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1898, Volume I, p. 201, No ill-weather in Hay or Harvest ever gave me so chagrining a disappointment.