disappoint
音標發(fā)音
- 英式音標 [?d?s.??p??nt]
- 美式音標 [?d?s.??p??nt]
- 國際音標 [,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
- 15世紀初期進入英語,直接源自中古法語的desapointier,意爲未到指定的地點令人感到失望,掃興。
詞根記憶
- dis(不) + appoint(任命)→沒被任命,所以失望→使失望
- dis(沒有) + appoint(委任)→沒有受到委任→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…的期望。
用法辨析
- disappoint用作及物動詞時,意思是“使…失望”,指原來的希望落空了。後麪直接跟名詞或代詞作賓語,不用介詞to。
- disappoint的過去分詞disappointed常用作形容詞,在句中作表語,後麪可接in, with加名詞或at加名詞或動名詞也可接動詞不定式或that從句。接介詞in或with是指對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、某一行動而感到失望。
- disappoint偶爾也可用作不及物動詞,意思是“令人失望”。
v. (動詞)
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.
他們沒能吸取歷史的教訓,使我們感到很失望。
用作動詞 (v.)
用作不及物動詞: S+~(+A)
用作及物動詞: S+~+ n./pron.
S+be ~ed+that-clause
詞組短語
- 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.