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setback / reverse / check / defeat / frustration / disappointment / to frustrate / to discourage / to set sb back / to blunt / to subdue
HSK 7-9
Really! (interj. of annoyance or frustration)
HSK 7-9
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  *奈* | 奈* | *奈
used in expressions that convey frustration and futility, such as 無奈|无奈 and 莫可奈何 (literary) / used for its phonetic value in writing foreign words
to cough up blood / (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or frustration etc)
(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
to suffer from pent-up frustrations / mental knot / emotional issue
to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom)
lit. to smash a pot just because it has a crack (idiom) / fig. to give up altogether after a setback; to throw one's hands up in frustration and let it all go to hell
frustration
pent-up frustration / petty annoyances


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