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单词 disappointment
释义
disappointment
noun
uk
/ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt.mənt/us
/ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt.mənt/
B1[U]
thefeelingof beingdisappointed:
失望，沮丧
Getticketsearly toavoiddisappointment.早点预订以免扑空。
Tomy(great)disappointment(=sadness), hedecidedtoleave.令我（非常）沮丧的是，他决定离开。
B1[Cusually singular]
something or someone that is not what you werehopingit would be:
令人失望的人（或事物）
Thepartyturnedout to be ahugedisappointment.聚会办得令人大失所望。
I alwaysfeltI was a disappointmenttomyparents.我总是觉得自己是一个让父母失望的孩子。
More examples
  • Theirsonhas been adeepdisappointment to them.
  • Shetriedtohideher disappointment at not getting thepromotion.
  • Thematchendedin disappointment for theretiringcaptain, Viv Richards.
  • Sheswallowedher disappointment, saying, "That's OK, it doesn'tmatter."
  • Failing thefinalexamswas abitterdisappointment for me.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Disappointing yourself and others
  • abjectly
  • anticlimactic
  • anticlimax
  • be cracked up to besomethingidiom
  • be one in the eye forsomeoneidiom
  • break
  • disappointingly
  • disenchantment
  • dishearten
  • disheartening
  • dishonour
  • eye
  • fail
  • fall
  • let the side downidiom
  • letdown
  • non-event
  • pity
  • prick
  • sick
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(Definition ofdisappointmentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

disappointment| American Dictionary

disappointment
noun[C/U]
us
/ˌdɪs·əˈpɔɪnt·mənt/
theunhappinessordiscouragementthatresultswhenyourhopesorexpectationshave not beensatisfied, or someone or something that is not as good as you hadhopedorexpected:
[U]Her disappointmentshowedon herface.
[C]After twolosingseasons, wefelthe was a disappointment as acoach.
(Definition ofdisappointmentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdisappointment

disappointment
Second, the range of explanations for both relative disappointments and successes bears expanding.
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Lamentable shortcomings become apparent here, which in some cases certainly lead to personal disappointments and require unprejudiced clarification by historical science.
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Any book of this kind is bound to provoke some disagreement and minor disappointments.
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He draws a comparison with similar disappointments felt with regard to other reforms or social changes.
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The text does contain a few drawbacks or disappointments.
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Indeed, one of the key disappointments of the current national childcare strategy is the continuing lack of childcare places.
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There are a few revelations, but too many disappointments.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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They also experience continuous disappointments.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Collocationswithdisappointment

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These are words often used in combination withdisappointment.

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big disappointment
But thebigdisappointmentis how little current empirical evidence is drawn upon to support their claims.
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bitter disappointment
To those who had aspired to better things, the horrors of the half century after emancipation came as abitterdisappointment.
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deep disappointment
The publication of these letters must have been adeepdisappointmentto those who thought that a great moral scandal was likely to be revealed.
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