| 词汇 | dismay |
| 释义 | dismay noun[ U ] uk /dɪˈsmeɪ/ us /dɪˈsmeɪ/ C2 a feeling of unhappiness and disappointment: 沮丧，灰心，失望 be filled with dismayAid workers were said to have been filled with dismay by the appalling conditions that the refugees were living in.据说援助人员看到难民所处的恶劣生活条件时都感到非常难过。 in/with dismayThe fans watched in/with dismay as their team lost 42–11.球迷们郁闷地看着自己的球队以42比11的比分输掉了比赛。 to someone's dismayShe discovered, to her dismay, that her exam was a whole month earlier than she'd expected.她郁闷地发现考试比她预料的早了整整一个月。 Synonym consternation Sadness and regret aw be/weigh on your conscienceidiom bitter black dog breastbeating cry feel badidiom gloominess glumness groan guilt guilt complex melancholia prick someone's conscienceidiom regretful regretfully remorse remorseful repentant wretchedness Related worddismayed dismay verb[ T ] uk /dɪˈsmeɪ/ us /dɪˈsmeɪ/ to make someone feel unhappy and disappointed: The prospect of more road-building dismays environmentalists. The third quarter dismayed overseas investors. The mayor is governing with an aggressiveness that delights some and dismays others. Your decision to publish such an article dismays me. He signalled two months ago that he would consider changing the law to allow him to run again, dismaying opponents. Making people sad, shocked and upset aback amiss appal be laughing on the other side of your faceidiom bite bum haunt heartbreaker heartbreakingly hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom horrify nerve self-laceration sensitivity shake someone out of something shake someone up shake/rock something to its foundationsidiom shattering tear toxic dismay | American Dictionarydismay noun[ U ] us/dɪsˈmeɪ/ a feeling of shock and unhappiness: She discovered, to her dismay, that she had locked her keys inside her car. dismayverb[ T ]us/dɪsˈmeɪ/ They enjoyed the meal but were dismayed by how much it cost. Examples of dismaydismay However, even in this context, patrician fathers were dismayed to see the lengths to which their sons took this trend. During this time, staff used a "priority scoring system," which they experienced as a dismaying process of drastic selection. Her professor does not seem to be dismayed by her pragmatic inappropriateness and co-constructs a successful encounter. The fire mentioned at the start of this story left us shocked and dismayed. He was dismayed by the insincerity, vanity and coldness of the human heart. The trade unions were growing in militancy, especially during the years after 1890, and were displaying powers which dismayed a large part of middle-class society. I am dismayed by his prejudice against agribusinesses. The losses of summer-autumn 1941, dismaying as they were, correspondingly produced no fundamental rethinking of officer policy. Most of my friends were dismayed by the alienation. Trotter was dismayed by the war hysteria of 1914 - 18, which dismissed pacifism and internationalism as 'the vapourings of cranky windbags'. As a climatologist in a geography department it dismays me that often human activity is seen as adjunct to the climate system rather than an integral part. They were variously dismayed, appalled, or furious. On the left, dismayed, she receives the letter that will prove she has indeed eaten the chatelain's heart as her husband and servant present the evidence. Proponents of community policing often feel dismayed at the recklessness with which carefully cultivated relationships are undermined by the authorisation of" fire brigade" tactics at the first suggestion of disorder. He was a local rate collector, one who showed forbearance in extracting money from hard-pressed small farmers even though this would have dismayed county officials had they known. See all examples of dismay 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. |
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