disappoint

英 [d?s?'p??nt] 美['d?s?'p??nt]

反義詞

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第三人稱單數:?disappoints;過去式:?disappointed;過去分詞:?disappointed;現在分詞:?disappointing;

disappoint 使失望

dis-, 不，非，使相反。appoint, 指定。即沒有指定，任命，引申義失望。

disappoint: disappoint: [15] Disappoint (a borrowing from French désappointer) originally meant ‘remove from a post or office, sack’ – that is, literally, ‘deprive of an appointment’; ‘A monarch … hath power … to appoint or to disappoint the greatest officers’, Thomas Bowes, De La Primaudraye’s French academie 1586. This semantic line has now died out, but parallel with it was a sense ‘fail to keep an appointment’, which appears to be the ancestor of modern English ‘fail to satisfy, frustrate, thwart’.
disappoint (v.): early 15c., "dispossess of appointed office," from Middle French desappointer (14c.) "undo the appointment, remove from office," from des- (see dis-) + appointer "appoint" (see appoint).

Modern sense of "to frustrate expectations" (late 15c.) is from secondary meaning of "fail to keep an appointment." Related: Disappointed; disappointing.

1. Her decision to cancel the concert is bound to disappoint her fans.: 她決定取消這場音樂會，肯定會使她的歌迷失望。

4. Rather than break her appointment and disappoint me, Katie again took the car.: 凱蒂又一次把車開來了，而沒有爽約讓我失望。

5. I promised to buy my son a new bicycle but I had to disappoint him.: 我答應給兒子買輛新自行車,可我不得不讓他失望了.