disappoint
英 [dɪsə'pɒɪnt]
美 ['dɪsə'pɔɪnt]
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disappoint 使失望dis-, 不，非，使相反。appoint, 指定。即没有指定，任命，引申义失望。
- disappoint
- disappoint: [15] Disappoint (a borrowing from French désappointer) originally meant ‘remove from a post or office, sack’ – that is, literally, ‘deprive of an appointment’; ‘A monarch … hath power … to appoint or to disappoint the greatest officers’, Thomas Bowes, De La Primaudraye’s French academie 1586. This semantic line has now died out, but parallel with it was a sense ‘fail to keep an appointment’, which appears to be the ancestor of modern English ‘fail to satisfy, frustrate, thwart’.
- disappoint (v.)
- early 15c., "dispossess of appointed office," from Middle French desappointer (14c.) "undo the appointment, remove from office," from des- (see dis-) + appointer "appoint" (see appoint).
Modern sense of "to frustrate expectations" (late 15c.) is from secondary meaning of "fail to keep an appointment." Related: Disappointed; disappointing.
- 1. Her decision to cancel the concert is bound to disappoint her fans.
- 她决定取消这场音乐会，肯定会使她的歌迷失望。
来自《权威词典》
- 2. He's building me up too much — I may disappoint him.
- 他将我捧上了天,我可能会令他失望.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. I'm sorry to disappoint your hope.
- 对不起,我使你失望了.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 4. Rather than break her appointment and disappoint me, Katie again took the car.
- 凯蒂又一次把车开来了，而没有爽约让我失望。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. I promised to buy my son a new bicycle but I had to disappoint him.
- 我答应给儿子买辆新自行车,可我不得不让他失望了.
来自《简明英汉词典》
