disappoint
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt]
- 美式音标 [ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt]
- 国际音标 [,disə'pɔint]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- vt.使失望
- vi.使失望
词源解说
- 15世纪初期进入英语,直接源自中古法语的desapointier,意为未到指定的地点令人感到失望,扫兴。
词根记忆
- dis(不) + appoint(任命)→没被任命,所以失望→使失望
- dis(没有) + appoint(委任)→没有受到委任→使失望
同根派生
- adj性质的同根词
- disappointed:失望的,沮丧的;受挫折的。
- disappointing:令人失望的;令人扫兴的。
- adv性质的同根词
- disappointedly:失望地。
- disappointingly:令人失望地。
- n性质的同根词
- disappointment:失望;沮丧。
- v性质的同根词
- disappointing:令人失望(disappoint的ing形式);辜负…的期望。
用法辨析
- disappoint用作及物动词时,意思是“使…失望”,指原来的希望落空了。后面直接跟名词或代词作宾语,不用介词to。
- disappoint的过去分词disappointed常用作形容词,在句中作表语,后面可接in, with加名词或at加名词或动名词也可接动词不定式或that从句。接介词in或with是指对某人或某事不合理想而感到失望,接at是指因不满某一事实、某一行动而感到失望。
- disappoint偶尔也可用作不及物动词,意思是“令人失望”。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- Somewhere life had disappointed.
在某些地方,生活已经让人很失望。 - He disappointed me.
他使我失望。 - We were disappointed that they could not learn the lesson of history.
他们没能吸取历史的教训,使我们感到很失望。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+~(+A)
用作及物动词: S+~+ n./pron.
S+be ~ed+that-clause
词组短语
- disappoint much 非常失望
- disappoint very much 非常失望
- disappoint acutely 极其失望
- disappoint agreeably 容易失望
- disappoint badly 很失望
用作动词 (v.)
~+副词
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.