chagrin
英 [ˈʃæɡrɪn]
美 [ʃəˈɡrɪn]
n. 失望; 恼怒; 烦恼; 懊恼
vt. 使懊恼; 使懊丧; 使悔恨
现在分词：chagrining 过去式：chagrined 第三人称单数：chagrins 过去分词：chagrined
BNC.19072 / COCA.16105
牛津词典
noun
- 失望；恼怒；烦恼；懊恼
a feeling of being disappointed or annoyed
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 懊恼;窝火;失望
Chagrinis a feeling of disappointment, upset, or annoyance, perhaps because of your own failure.- One of the first things we did when we moved in, to the chagrin of the architect, was to replace the leaded windows.
让建筑师大为懊恼的是，我们搬进去最先做的事情之一就是换掉了花饰铅条窗。
- One of the first things we did when we moved in, to the chagrin of the architect, was to replace the leaded windows.
英英释义
noun
- strong feelings of embarrassment
verb
- cause to feel shame
- He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss
双语例句
- To my chagrin, Altman told me, Stanford has not had a really great track record.
让我懊恼的是，奥特曼告诉我说，斯坦福的成绩并不是特别好。 - 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。 - To her chagrin, however, she was rejected twice.
可两次申请都没有被录取，令她郁闷。 - Thomas discovered to his great chagrin that he was broke.
托马斯十分懊恼地发现自己破产了。 - 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。 - Though I'd heard quite a lot from the western media, I realized, to my chagrin, that I'd never once actually asked a Hong Kong resident how they felt.
尽管从西方媒介那里听到的不少，令我懊恼的是，我还从没有真正问过一个香港人他们是怎么想的。 - Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation.
使人觉得羞愧、懊恼和恼怒。 - Much to the chagrin of his children, when he died he left all his money to charity.
他去世时把所有的钱都留给了慈善事业，这使得他的子女很不高兴。 - To cause to feel chagrin; mortify or discomfit.
使懊恼，使受屈辱，使窘迫。 - Much to our chagrin, you've done it again.
令我们遗憾的是，你又这么做了。