Thwart

(noun.) a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat.

(verb.) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; 'What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge'; 'foil your opponent'.

塞西尔手打

• But how if another claw in the shape of me is straining to thwart it? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It is dangerous, explosively dangerous, to thwart them for any length of time. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If he overheard our plans to rescue Dejah Thoris, it will mean civil war, for he will attempt to thwart us, and in that I will not be thwarted. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• You mean that she will be killed merely to thwart me? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• For in the last analysis the practical and the reasonable are little idols of clay that thwart our efforts. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I will neither help you nor thwart you; so you can do as you please, but I don't think you'll succeed in your schemes. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Tammany is not a satanic instrument of deception, cleverly devised to thwart the will of the people. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It made her blood run sharp, to be thwarted in even so trifling a matter. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It sent her into a strange, convulsed anger, to be thwarted. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Napoleon, thwarted of a Russian princess, snubbed indeed by Alexander, turned to Austria, and married the arch-duchess Marie Louise. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I am thwarted in every thing material. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• When we are thwarted we begin to ask why. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If he overheard our plans to rescue Dejah Thoris, it will mean civil war, for he will attempt to thwart us, and in that I will not be thwarted. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• And so without waiting to be again discovered and thwarted, I ran quickly up the short, steep incline and pushed open the doorway at its end. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The woman of Pablo could feel her rage changing to sorrow and to a feeling of the thwarting of all hope and promise. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Our choice, it seems to me, lies between a blind push and a deliberate leadership, between thwarting movements until they master us, and domesticating them until they are answered. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Half the town would almost take trouble for the sake of thwarting him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• They become dangerous to a nation when it denies them, thwarts them and represses them so long that they burst out and become dominant. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I told him in French that all we wanted was to walk over his thwarts and step ashore, and asked him what he went away out there for. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

安妮特手打