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WORD OF TEH DAY, chagrin \shuh-GRIN\, noun: Acute vexation, annoyance, or embarrassment, arising from disappointment or failure --chagrin, verb: To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛"To the chagrin of U.S. legislators and prosecutors who want to ban them, the Caribbean casinos are easily accessible to anyone with a computer modem and a credit card.''
--"Internet Gambling Booming in Caribbean," New York Times, December 17, 1997

"He ran away to the recruiting office at Ottumwa, a river port where Union soldiers were transported east--how he got to the town, a good half-day journey by wagon, isn't clear--and to his chagrin, he found his father waiting there."
--Allen Barra, Inventing Wyatt Earp:His Life and Many Legends

"He noted with chagrin how little hair clung to his head."
--John Marks, The Wall

"Much to the chagrin of its supporters, a war memorial commemorating the Oakland, a decorated World War II anti-aircraft ship, has been dumped in an open lot owned by the Port of Oakland. "
--"Battleship Memorial Is Mothballed," San Francisco Chronicle Saturday, August 21, 1999

"The fact that the donation is going to the National rather than the Louvre, is already causing a rift in cross-Channel artistic circles; euphoria in London, chagrin in Paris."
--"£1m art snub from fashion's old master," Electronic Telegraph, 14 October 1997更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
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