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let someone down


phrasal verb with letverbuk /let/ us /let/present participleletting | past tense and past participlelet
B2
to disappoint someone by failing to do what you agreed to do or were expected to do: 辜负(某人),使(某人)失望
You will be there tomorrow - you won't let me down, will you?明天你会去那里的——你不会让我失望,对吧?
When I was sent to prison, I really felt I had let my parents down.我入狱的时候真觉得对不起我的父母。
I don't want to let myself down in the exam.
I let down all my friends by stealing.
I feel that I let down my country.
My children would never let me down.
I'm relying on your help - please don't let me down.
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abjectly
anticlimactic
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break
bubble
disappointingly
disappointment
disenchantment
dishearten
disheartening
fail
let the side downidiom
letdown
non-event
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let something down


phrasal verb with letverbuk /let/ us /let/present participleletting | past tense and past participlelet

(CLOTHES)


If you let down a piece of clothing, you make it longer: 把(衣服)放长一些,将(衣服)加长
My trousers shrank in the wash so I let them down.我的裤子洗过后缩水了,所以我把裤腿放长了。
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Knitting & sewing
appliqué
appliquéd
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Bargello
baste
handknit
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hem
intarsia
reknit
resew
rib
run something up
running stitch
sampler
seam
seamstress
sew
stitch

(AIR)


UK
If you let down something filled with air, you cause the air to go out of it: 给…放气,放出…中的空气
Someone let my tyres down while I was at the gym.我在健身房时有人把我的车胎给放了气。
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abridgment
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attenuated
attenuating
attenuation
compress
contraction
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ease
ease someone's mindidiom
ease up/off
halve
reduce
reducible
reduction
resize
retreat
trough
tumble

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let down someone | American Dictionary


let down someone


phrasal verb with letverb[ T ]us/let/
to cause someone to be disappointed, often because you have failed to do what you promised:
You’ll be there tomorrow – you won’t let me down, will you?
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