letdown 的定义
- 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.
letdown 近义词
disappointment
更多letdown例句
- 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.