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词汇 non-event
释义 non-event
noun[ Cusually singular ]
 informaluk /ˌnɒn.ɪˈvent/ us /ˌnɑːn.ɪˈvent/
a disappointing occasion that was not interesting, especially one that was expected to be exciting and important: (尤指不如预期的)令人扫兴之事
The party turned out to be a non-event - barely anybody showed up.结果聚会有点让人失望——几乎没什么人来参加。
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
letdown
not all it's cracked up to beidiom
pity
sick

Examples of non-event


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For a non-event, it has certainly drawn an impressive list of speakers and has kept us here well into the evening.
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First, with regard to reform, the six months have been a complete non-event.
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I thought that he would be interested to know that what led him to concern himself in this way was a non-event.
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This has turned the debate, as has already been said, into a total non-event.
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However, the change is so far proving to be a non-event.
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My recollection of him goes back to that time, and to his resignation in 1977 over a non-event.
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It is a non-event, paying lip service to local representation.
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We may all get excited about something that is not to happen and may become a non-event.
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But the term "consumer" is nebulous, a non-event.
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Thrice that consideration has proved to be a non-event.
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I find it difficult to know whether we are discussing a joke, a non-event or something particularly disastrous.
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It can only be described as the non-event of the year.
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Later tonight we shall come to another non-event, for no very good purpose.
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In terms of fundamental changes being recommended, this is something of a non-event.
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In fact, we have no sanction at all; at present we merely have the 72-hour non-event.
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