disappoint
音標(biāo)發(fā)音
- 英式音標(biāo) [?d?s.??p??nt]
- 美式音標(biāo) [?d?s.??p??nt]
- 國(guó)際音標(biāo) [,dis?'p?int]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- vt.使失望
- vi.使失望
詞源解說(shuō)
- 15世紀(jì)初期進(jìn)入英語(yǔ)，直接源自中古法語(yǔ)的desapointier，意爲(wèi)未到指定的地點(diǎn)令人感到失望，掃興。
詞根記憶
- dis(不) + appoint(任命)→沒(méi)被任命，所以失望→使失望
- dis(沒(méi)有) + appoint(委任)→沒(méi)有受到委任→使失望
同根派生
- adj性質(zhì)的同根詞
- disappointed：失望的，沮喪的；受挫折的。
- disappointing：令人失望的；令人掃興的。
- adv性質(zhì)的同根詞
- disappointedly：失望地。
- disappointingly：令人失望地。
- n性質(zhì)的同根詞
- disappointment：失望；沮喪。
- v性質(zhì)的同根詞
- disappointing：令人失望（disappoint的ing形式）；辜負(fù)…的期望。
用法辨析
- disappoint用作及物動(dòng)詞時(shí),意思是“使…失望”,指原來(lái)的希望落空了。後麪直接跟名詞或代詞作賓語(yǔ),不用介詞to。
- disappoint的過(guò)去分詞disappointed常用作形容詞,在句中作表語(yǔ),後麪可接in, with加名詞或at加名詞或動(dòng)名詞也可接動(dòng)詞不定式或that從句。接介詞in或with是指對(duì)某人或某事不郃理想而感到失望,接at是指因不滿某一事實(shí)、某一行動(dòng)而感到失望。
- disappoint偶爾也可用作不及物動(dòng)詞,意思是“令人失望”。
v. (動(dòng)詞)
英漢例句
- Somewhere life had disappointed.
在某些地方,生活已經(jīng)讓人很失望。 - He disappointed me.
他使我失望。 - We were disappointed that they could not learn the lesson of history.
他們沒(méi)能吸取歷史的教訓(xùn),使我們感到很失望。
用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)
用作不及物動(dòng)詞: S+～(+A)
用作及物動(dòng)詞: S+～+ n./pron.
S+be ～ed+that-clause
詞組短語(yǔ)
- disappoint much 非常失望
- disappoint very much 非常失望
- disappoint acutely 極其失望
- disappoint agreeably 容易失望
- disappoint badly 很失望
用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)
～+副詞
英英字典
- to fail to satisfy someone or their hopes, wishes, etc., or to make someone feel unhappy
- If things or people disappoint you, they are not as good as you had hoped, or do not do what you hoped they would do.