disappoint

英 [ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt]      美 [ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt]
  • vt. 使失望
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将“disappoint”拆分为两部分记忆:“dis”(意为否定)和“appoint”(意为任命、约定)。想象一次本应该任命(appoint)的约定(appointment)因某些原因而被否定(dis),结果就是失望(disappoint)。这种方法通过构词的内在逻辑来帮助记忆。

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disappoint 使失望

dis-, 不,非,使相反。appoint, 指定。即没有指定,任命,引申义失望。

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.
她决定取消这场音乐会,肯定会使她的歌迷失望。
2. He's building me up too much — I may disappoint him.
他将我捧上了天,我可能会令他失望.
3. I'm sorry to disappoint your hope.
对不起,我使你失望了.
4. Rather than break her appointment and disappoint me, Katie again took the car.
凯蒂又一次把车开来了,而没有爽约让我失望。
5. I promised to buy my son a new bicycle but I had to disappoint him.
我答应给儿子买辆新自行车,可我不得不让他失望了.