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词汇 disillusioning
释义 disillusioning
present participle ofdisillusion
disillusion
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌdɪs.ɪˈluː.ʒən/ us /ˌdɪs.ɪˈluː.ʒən/
to disappoint someone by telling them the unpleasant truth about something or someone that they had a good opinion of or respected: 使幻想破灭;使清醒,使觉悟
I hate to/I'm sorry to disillusionI hate to/I'm sorry to disillusion you, but pregnancy is not always wonderful - I was sick every day for six months.我不想打破你的美梦,但是怀孕并非总是美妙的事——我当时有6个月的时间天天都恶心。
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
bubble
dash
disappointingly
disappointment
disenchantment
dishearten
disheartening
fail
let someone down
let the side downidiom
letdown
non-event
not all it's cracked up to beidiom
sick

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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


It seems likely that his challenge can only be met by a new generation of ' idealists ', untainted by the disillusioning experiences so acutely analysed here.
More recently, critics have been inclined to see, at the very least, a disillusioning ambivalence about empire.
Lowenthal has argued that the appropriation of the past in this context became "a refuge from the all too new and disillusioning present" created by rapid modernization (xxi).
How disillusioning for our nurses: they were promised so much and, within so little time, badly let down.
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I believe that the development of the instruments of biological warfare in this country is part also of this disillusioning process.
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Does he accept that one of the things that young people find most disillusioning is being asked for their views, then having them totally disregarded?
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Nothing could be more disillusioning than for a young person wishing to vote to find his name not on the roll.
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It was a deeply disillusioning experience to go there.
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We know that what chief executives say is very disillusioning.
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However, that may be the thought of someone with some sad and disillusioning experience behind him.
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Let us find ways to reduce the number of trials that crack late in the day, disillusioning witnesses and victims.
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Again and again planning applications are overturned on appeal, and that is disillusioning for elected councillors, who are doing their best for local people.
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The clamouring for higher salaries and top positions has been very disillusioning.
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Scientists are disillusioned, not necessarily because of cuts—though that certainly is disillusioning enough—but because when cuts are proposed they are proposed in such a disjointed way.
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Who is to say what the final social consequences will be on marriages and families which have been founded in the disillusioning and dispiriting framework of almost certain continuous unemployment?
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