disappointment

读音

• /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/ 英國
• /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/ US

释义

1. 失望

   uncountable

   Even a trip to beautiful California can cause disappointment.

   即使是去美丽的加利福尼亚旅行也可能令人失望。

   They remembered too keenly their pleasant credulity as to what to-morrow would bring forth, to dare indulge expectation of its pleasure; they had been disappointed once—so might they be again—for disappointment ever leaves fear behind.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 184:

   Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side."

   1992, News Group Newspapers Ltd, Today:

2. 令人失望的事物

   countable

   The disappointment with our trip to California caused bickering.

   我们对加州之行的失望引起了争吵。

   For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

   2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:

   As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — Wilson tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it.

   1990, Peter Hennessy, Cabinet, Basil Blackwell Ltd:

3. 導致失望的事物

   countable

   Even a trip to beautiful California can be a disappointment.

   即使是去美丽的加利福尼亚旅行也可能令人失望。

   What a disappointment!

   真令人失望！