| 词汇 | disappointment |
| 释义 | disappointment noun uk /ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt.mənt/ us /ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt.mənt/ B1[ U ] the feeling of being disappointed: 失望，沮丧 avoid disappointmentGet tickets early to avoid disappointment.早点预订以免扑空。 to someone’s disappointmentTo my disappointment (= sadness), he decided to leave. B1[ Cusually singular ] something or someone that is not what you were hoping it would be: 令人失望的人（或事物） The party turned out to be a huge disappointment.聚会办得令人大失所望。 great disappointmentThe decision to abandon the project was a great disappointment to him. bitter disappointmentHe is certainly a bitter disappointment to the people of this country. disappointment toI always felt I was a disappointment to my parents.我总是觉得自己是一个让父母失望的孩子。 Their son has been a deep disappointment to them.他们对儿子一直很失望。 She tried to hide her disappointment at not getting the promotion.她试图掩饰自己对没有得到提升的失望。 The match ended in disappointment for the retiring captain, Viv Richards. She swallowed her disappointment, saying, "That's OK, it doesn't matter."她抑制住自己的失望说：“没事，没关系。” Failing the final exams was a bitter disappointment for me.期末考试不及格令我非常痛苦。 Disappointing yourself and others abjectly anticlimactic anticlimax be cracked up to be somethingidiom be one in the eye for someoneidiom blow break bubble disappointingly disenchantment dishearten disheartening dishearteningly fail let the side downidiom letdown non-event not all it's cracked up to beidiom pity sick disappointment | American Dictionarydisappointment noun[ C/U ] us/ˌdɪs·əˈpɔɪnt·mənt/ the unhappiness or discouragement that results when your hopes or expectations have not been satisfied, or someone or something that is not as good as you had hoped or expected: [ U ]Her disappointment showed on her face. [ C ]After two losing seasons, we felt he was a disappointment as a coach. Examples of disappointmentdisappointment Second, the range of explanations for both relative disappointments and successes bears expanding. Lamentable shortcomings become apparent here, which in some cases certainly lead to personal disappointments and require unprejudiced clarification by historical science. Any book of this kind is bound to provoke some disagreement and minor disappointments. He draws a comparison with similar disappointments felt with regard to other reforms or social changes. The text does contain a few drawbacks or disappointments. Indeed, one of the key disappointments of the current national childcare strategy is the continuing lack of childcare places. There are a few revelations, but too many disappointments. The private family sphere was no communal realm of virtue ' ruled by altruism and love ', but instead a 'sphere of expectations, disappointments, critique, and moral judgement ' (p. 28). They also made the fewest references to environmental and life-style advantages and unanticipated benefits, complemented by significantly frequent references to problems and disappointments in this category. The fact that so many disappointments with the reality of such services were voiced seemed, at its simplest, to reflect a lack of shared agendas between the parties. They also experience continuous disappointments. The external events draw a profile of a successf ul woman who no doubt suffered disappointments and setbacks but never theless continued to struggle and achieve a great deal. In these circumstances, most parents would decide to have the operation performed, even though doing so would mean that the child would suffer greater disappointments in life. His eventual blindness is hardly touched upon in the narrative, despite its prominence in the title, which is one of the few disappointments in his compelling narrative. On the former, the advantages and surpassed expectations clearly exceeded the problems and disappointments, so that for 80 per cent of our informants, their well-being score was positive. See all examples of disappointment These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withdisappointmentdisappointmentThese are words often used in combination with disappointment. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. big disappointment But the bigdisappointment is how little current empirical evidence is drawn upon to support their claims. bitter disappointment To those who had aspired to better things, the horrors of the half century after emancipation came as a bitterdisappointment. deep disappointment The publication of these letters must have been a deepdisappointment to those who thought that a great moral scandal was likely to be revealed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with disappointment |
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