• n. 懊恼；委屈；气愤
• vt. 使…懊恼
• n. (Chagrin)人名；(英)沙格兰

词源不详。

chagrin

chagrin: [17] The word chagrin first appeared in French in the 14th century as an adjective, meaning ‘sad, vexed’, a usage at first adopted into English: ‘My wife in a chagrin humour, she not being pleased with my kindness to either of them’, Samuel Pepys’s Diary 6 August 1666. It died out in English in the early 18th century, but the subsequently developed noun and verb have persisted. Etymologists now discount any connection with French chagrin ‘untanned leather’ (source of English shagreen [17]), which came from Turkish sagri.

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 of unknown origin, perhaps from a Germanic source (compare Old High German gram "angry, fierce"). But OED and other sources trace it to an identical Old French word, borrowed into English phonetically as shagreen, meaning "rough skin or hide," which is of uncertain origin, the connecting notion being "roughness, harshness." Modern sense of "feeling of irritation from disappointment" is 1716.

chagrin (v.)

1660s (implied in chagrined), from chagrin (n.). Related: Chagrined; chagrining.

1. Much to his chagrin, he did not win the race.

使他大为懊恼的是他赛跑没获胜.

来自《简明英汉词典》

2. 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。

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3. His increasingly visible chagrin sets up a vicious circle.

他的明显的不满引起了一种恶性循环.

来自辞典例句

4. Much to his chagrin, he came last in the race.

他因跑个倒数第一而垂头丧气.

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5. Chagrin is not something a great man often acknowledges.

一位伟大的人物往往是不肯承认自己恼羞成怒的.

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