disappoint
verb🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/
🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they disappoint | 🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/ 🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/ |
| he / she / it disappoints | 🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnts/ 🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnts/ |
| past simple disappointed | 🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd/ 🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd/ |
| past participle disappointed | 🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd/ 🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd/ |
| -ing form disappointing | 🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive]
to make somebody feel sad because something that they hope for or expect to happen does not happen or is not as good as they hoped 使失望 - disappoint (somebody)
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。 🔊🔊 I hate to disappoint you, but I'm just not interested. 我不想使你扫兴，但我确实不感兴趣。 🔊🔊 The movie had disappointed her (= it wasn't as good as she had expected). 这部电影使她失望。 🔊🔊 I hate to disappoint the children when they've been looking forward to it so much. 当孩子们一直非常期待它时，我不想让他们失望。 His latest novel does not disappoint. 他最近发表的这部小说没有使人失望。 🔊🔊 - it disappoints somebody that…
It disappointed me that nobody bothered to say thank you. 令我失望的是，没人愿意说谢谢。
- disappoint (somebody)
- [transitive] disappoint something
to prevent something that somebody hopes for from becoming a reality 使破灭；使落空 The new government had soon disappointed the hopes of many of its supporters. 新政府不久便使许多支持者的希望破灭了。 🔊🔊 If he agrees to the deal he will disappoint the expectations of many colleagues. 如果他同意这笔交易，他将使许多同事的期望令人失望。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘deprive of a position’): from Old French desappointer.