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词汇 letdown
释义 letdown
noun[ S ]
 informaluk /ˈlet.daʊn/ us /ˈlet.daʊn/
a disappointment: 失望,沮丧
After all I'd heard about the movie, it turned out to be a bit of a letdown.关于这部电影我听说过很多,看完后却让我有点儿失望。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Disappointing yourself and others
abjectly
anticlimactic
anticlimax
be cracked up to be somethingidiom
be one in the eye for someoneidiom
blow
break
bubble
disappointingly
disappointment
disenchantment
dishearten
disheartening
fail
let someone down
let the side downidiom
non-event
not all it's cracked up to beidiom
pity
sick

letdown | American Dictionary


letdown
noun[ Cusually sing ]
us/ˈletˌdɑʊn/
an act of disappointing someone; disappointment:
It was quite a letdown when Joyce only got a grade of C on the final exam.

Examples of letdown


letdown
The amendment is a severe letdown to my constituents.
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Because of the partiality of its authors and the lack of homework and consultation which preceded it, it is a major letdown.
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First, there is the advantage of avoiding any sense of letdown.
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That was a desperate letdown for the industry.
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We can well imagine the sense of letdown in those two county councils and the sense of disappointment among commuters.
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I think there is a certain letdown when the children leave school and their enthusiasms and interests have been half aroused.
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After so promising a start, it's a letdown.
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Yet if the subject fails to keep the viewer glued to his seat, it's probably because the technical team is a let-down!
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Once a woman is conditioned to nursing, let-down can be triggered by a variety of stimuli, including the sound of any baby.
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However, he did say that overall, he felt that the album was a letdown.
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He said that, while the resolution was a bit of a let-down, it was overall a good way to end the fifth season.
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He feared a letdown, so he ordered his team to consider the game scoreless.
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This time, the first-year optimism did not give way to letdown.
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If you're anticipating the band's previous albums re-hashed, you're going to be completely let-down.
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The main criticism of the game was how its stunning first level makes the rest of the game seem like a letdown.
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