disappoint
英 [ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt]
美 [ˌdɪs.əˈpɔɪnt]
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。
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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.