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Disappointing Hoped Team Means Disappoint 英 ˌdɪsə'Pɔɪntɪŋ] 美 ˌdɪsə'Pɔɪntɪŋ

英语单词 disappointing
英美音标 英 [ˌdɪsə'pɔɪntɪŋ] 美 [ˌdɪsə'pɔɪntɪŋ]
中文释义 adj.令人失望的
动词disappoint的现在分词.
英语例句 (1) Our team had a disappointing winless season.
(2) But so far this strategy has been disappointing.
中文例句 (1) 我们的队伍经历了一个令人失望的,毫无胜绩的赛季。
(2) 但迄今为止这种尝试是令人失望的。
vocabulary简明 Something that's disappointing isn't what you'd hoped for. A disappointing baseball season usually means that your favorite team lost a lot of games.
vocabulary扩展 When the candidate you voted for loses, it's a disappointing election result, and a disappointing grade in your math class is lower than what you hoped or expected it would be. Disappointing comes from the verb disappoint, which means "frustrate expectations," but had an earlier definition of "remove from appointed office." The modern sense of disappoint and disappointing comes from "fail to keep an appointment."
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]令人失望的;令人沮丧的;令人扫兴的 Something that is disappointing is not as good or as large as you hoped it would be.
  • The wine was excellent, but the food was disappointing...

    酒棒极了,但是饭菜却让人不敢恭维。

  • The recession is largely blamed for the disappointing response to the appeal.

    对此呼吁的反应令人失望,主要归咎于经济衰退。

disappointingly
  • Progress is disappointingly slow...

    进展慢得令人沮丧。

  • Disappointingly, this show is only on view for a week.

    令人失望的是,这次展览仅持续一周。

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