disappoint

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vt. 使失望

发音

UK /dɪsəˈpɔɪnt/
US /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/

词形变化

disappointed disappointest disappointeth disappointing disappoints 三单 disappoints disappointing 现在分词 disappointed 过去式 disappointed 过去分词

别名

disappoynt

教材释义与例句

动词

使失望

to make someone feel unhappy because something they hoped for did not happen or was not as good as they expected

I hated to disappoint her.

我不愿意让她失望。

Great things were expected of this band, and they didn't disappoint.

大家对这支乐队的期望很高，而他们也不负众望。

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    To sadden or displease (someone) by underperforming, or by not delivering something promised or hoped for.

    使…失望

    辜负

    对不起

    及物

    His lack of respect disappointed her.

    I was disappointed by last year’s revenue.

  2. 2.

    To deprive (someone of something expected or hoped for).

    及物

    1637, Thomas Killigrew, The Parson’s Wedding, Act V, Scene 4, in Comedies and Tragedies, London: Henry Herringman, 1664, p. 152, Bless me from an old waiting-womans wrath; she’l never forgive me the disappointing her of a promise when I was drunk;

    1707, extract from Lord Caryll’s letters, in James Macpherson (ed.), Original Papers: containing the secret history of Great Britain, from the restoration, to the accession of the House of Hannover, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775, Volume 2, p. 86, You tell me, that the hasty departure of Mr. Rysehoven [Marlborough] out of town disappointed you of speaking to him, of which the loss, I think, is not very great;

  3. 3.

    To fail to meet (an expectation); to fail to fulfil (a hope).

    过时 及物

    1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 127, 4 June, 1751, Volume 4, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 240-241, It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for eminent attainments or superior abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in celebrity and honour.

  4. 4.

    To show (an opinion, belief, etc.) to be mistaken.

    过时 及物
  5. 5.

    To prevent (something planned or attempted).

    废旧 及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

let down

上位词 9

cross spoil scotch queer foil thwart frustrate baffle bilk

下位词 6

fail betray disillusion come short disenchant fall short

词源

From Middle French desapointer (compare French désappointer). The word originally meant to "dispossess of appointed office", and eventually broadened to mean "to frustrate the expectations or desires of" and "defeat the realization or fulfillment of".

来源：wiktionary