chagrin
chagrin 英 [ˈʃægrɪn] 美 [ʃəˈgrɪn]
n. 懊恼；委屈；气愤 vt. 使…懊恼
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- Chagrin is a noun that represents an emotion or feeling and it's an uncomfortable one. If you feel chagrin, it means that you are embarrassed or distressed as a result of a failure.
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- n. 懊恼；委屈；气愤
- vt. 使…懊恼
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1. To his chagrin, she escaped, which is what lead him to go to the front desk to complain.
使他懊恼的是，这个女孩逃走了。 所以他就到前台来投诉了。
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2. Next day it all came out, sadly to my chagrin; and still I was not altogether sorry: I thought the burden of directing and warning would be more efficiently borne by him than me.
第二天就都说出来了，使我懊恼之至；可我还不十分难过：我以为指导和警戒的担子由他担负比由我担负会有效多了。
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3. The job, which involved the transcription of oral history tapes, had about it a quality of penance that suited me, though after a time I discovered to my chagrin that I was having fun.
这份工作是把口述历史录音带用文字记录下来，而这倒是有一种对我很相宜的苦修味道，尽管过了一阵子，我不无懊恼地发现，我正乐在其中。
- chagrin (n.) 1650s, "melancholy," from French chagrin "melancholy, anxiety, vexation" (14c.), from Old North French chagreiner or Angevin dialect chagraigner "sadden," which is of unknown origin, perhaps [Gamillscheg] from Old French graignier "grieve over, be angry," from graigne "sadness, resentment, grief, vexation," from graim "sorrowful," which is perhaps from a Germanic source (compare Old High German gram "angry, fierce").
- chagrin (v.) "vex, mortify," 1660s (implied in chagrined), from chagrin (n.). Related: Chagrining.
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