disappoint
英[d?s?'p??nt]
美['d?s?'p??nt]
- vt. 使失望
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?disappoints;過去式:?disappointed;過去分詞:?disappointed;現在分詞:?disappointing;
中文詞源
disappoint 使失望
dis-, 不，非，使相反。appoint, 指定。即沒有指定，任命，引申義失望。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. Her decision to cancel the concert is bound to disappoint her fans.
- 她決定取消這場音樂會，肯定會使她的歌迷失望。
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. He's building me up too much — I may disappoint him.
- 他將我捧上了天,我可能會令他失望.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. I'm sorry to disappoint your hope.
- 對不起,我使你失望了.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 4. Rather than break her appointment and disappoint me, Katie again took the car.
- 凱蒂又一次把車開來了，而沒有爽約讓我失望。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. I promised to buy my son a new bicycle but I had to disappoint him.
- 我答應給兒子買輛新自行車,可我不得不讓他失望了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》