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let down

/let-doun/US // ˈlɛtˌdaʊn //

辜负,辜负了,失望,辜负了人们的期望

Related Words

comedown下来,下来了,回归,崩溃setback后退,挫折,倒退,后移anticlimax反高潮,反高潮期,反高潮部分,反高潮期的blow打击,吹,打吹,吹吹balk逡巡不前,巴尔克,逡巡,巴尔干chagrin懊恼,懊悔,懊丧,懊恼的是disgruntlement不服气,不满意,不满,不满情绪frustration挫折感,挫败感,挫折,沮丧disillusionment幻灭感,幻灭,幻灭症,幻想破灭washout冲刷,冲出,冲洗,冲出重围bitter pill苦药,苦味药,苦肉计,苦口婆心

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a decrease in volume, force, energy, etc.: a letdown in sales; a general letdown of social barriers.
    • : disillusionment, discouragement, or disappointment: The job was a letdown.
    • : depression; deflation: He felt a terrible letdown at the end of the play.
    • : the accelerated movement of milk into the mammary glands of lactating mammals upon stimulation, as by massage or suckling.
    • : Aeronautics. the descent of an aircraft from a higher to a lower altitude preparatory to making an approach and landing or to making a target run or the like.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdisappoint
Synonyms
abandon抛弃,放弃,舍弃,弃置depress压抑,沮丧,沮丧的,压抑的disenchant失宠,失恋,丧失信心,失宠的人disillusion幻灭,幻灭感,幻想破灭,幻觉dissatisfy不满意,不满,不满意度,不满意的fail不合格,失败,不及格,不成功fall short亏损,亏欠,亏空,不及格leave in lurch放任自流,搁置不顾,搁置不前,搁置leave stranded搁浅,搁置,滞留,搁浅的lower较低的,较低,低层,低级pull down拉下,拉下来,下拉,下拉式take down记下,拿下,记下了,取下

Examples

  • It was an unprecedented public involvement in the normally secret negotiations, and it was a painful letdown for many that you could see coming hours before it happened.

  • So many times through the first 18 games of the season, the Wizards have come out on the wrong end of these fights, mostly because of a defensive letdown.

  • If there’s a letdown of behaviors, it’s going to find a way.

  • It doesn’t fly around like a drone, though, so it’s kind of a letdown after the previous announcement.

  • When I came back, I just knew that it would feel a bit like a letdown after having had the chance to play in Australia for a full season.

  • Over the next couple of years, though, some felt a letdown when they discovered that Borges had written no long works.

  • Marlow: Only a bit of a letdown up until the final handful of episodes!

  • Kent Sepkowitz wrote this past spring that other HIV "cures" didn't last long and this one was likely to be a letdown.

  • After the election night letdown the film jumps back to Christmas 2006.

  • The film is a hard-to-find creature, a smart rom-com that captures the exuberance of falling in love, and the inevitable letdown.

  • Someone else—Crag was never quite sure who—wanted an exact description of how the Aztec had handled during letdown.

  • Knowing that nothing was in sight but waiting was a letdown after the activity of the predawn hours.

  • For most people, the experience of hypnosis is something of a letdown.

  • No matter how you looked at the situation, the kid was in for a big letdown.

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