thwarted
英 [ˈθwɔːtɪd]
美 [ˈθwɔːrtɪd]
v. 阻止; 阻挠; 对…构成阻力
thwart的过去分词和过去式
BNC.21615 / COCA.25738
柯林斯词典
- VERB 使受挫;阻碍;阻挠
If youthwartsomeone orthwarttheir plans, you prevent them from doing or getting what they want.- The accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to thwart government investigators...
会计事务所故意毁坏文件,阻挠政府调查工作。 - Her ambition to become an artist was thwarted by failing eyesight.
她想成为艺术家的梦想由于视力衰减而破灭了。
- The accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to thwart government investigators...
英英释义
adj
- disappointingly unsuccessful
- disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions
- their foiled attempt to capture Calais
- many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers
- his best efforts were thwarted
双语例句
- I am thwarted in every thing material. I do not consider myself at all a fortunate person.
我在生活上没一件事是称心的,我根本就不认为自己是个幸运儿。 - Alas, Western powers have often thwarted this aspiration.
可叹,西方强国常常对这种愿望横加阻挠。 - The boy's lack of money thwarted his plans for college.
这个男孩因为缺钱,因此上大学的计划受挫了。 - It's only too natural that he will be thwarted in his ambitions.
他的图谋将遭到挫败是很自然的事。 - It must have galled him that Bardo thwarted each of these measures
巴多对每一项措施都加以阻挠,这一定让他十分气恼。 - Thus, he aided reaction and thwarted progress.
因此,他帮助反动派阻挠进步。 - I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.
我知道你万事都能作,你的计画都不能被拦阻。 - It was also thwarted by Republican intransigence.
共和党方面的不妥协形成了阻碍。 - But all withdrawals were overcome by Clare's gentle insistence; All attempts at revelation were lightly thwarted.
但是她每次往后退缩都在克莱的温情坚持下失败了;她所有想表白的企图都被轻轻地阻止了。 - The police thwarted the robbers 'plans by finding their hide-out and arresting them.
警方发现了劫匪的藏匿地点并将他们逮捕,从而挫败了他们的计划。