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 disappointment [`dɪsə'pɔɪntmənt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 失望

  1. He expressed keen disappointment that the hearing had been postponed.
    他对听证会延期表示大为沮丧。
  2. That defeat was a surprise and a disappointment.
    那次失败令人吃惊，令人失望。
  3. She gestured her disappointment by laying her hand on her forehead.
    她把手放在额头上，以表示失望。


disappointment
[ noun ]
  1. a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized

    2. <noun.feeling>
    his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment
  2. an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone

    3. <noun.act>


Disappointment \Dis`ap*point"ment\, n. [Cf. F.
d['e]sappointement.]
1. The act of disappointing, or the state of being
disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope;
miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.

If we hope for things of which we have not
thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment
will be greater than our pleasure in the fruition of
them. --Addison.

In disappointment thou canst bless. --Keble.

2. That which disappoints.

Syn: Miscarriage; frustration; balk.

  1. They were turned back at the border, their disappointment aggravated by blistering heat, she said.
  2. Since its debut, however, Entertainment Weekly has been greeted with noticeable disappointment.
  3. I could only feel an overwhelming, crushing disappointment.
  4. Thus, the White House is considering staging a public signing ceremony that will give Mr. Reagan another chance to express his disappointment at the measure.
  5. To the disappointment of many exporters, the department said that it won't recognize contract sanctity, except under special circumstances, as a reason for exempting shipments from the rules.
  6. Turnover was a hefty 9.9m. In spite of the dividend disappointment, retail analysts still found plenty to cheer in the results and a raft of profits upgrades followed.
  7. The reaction from the tax-avoidance industry has been disappointment that the provision is so easy to circumvent.
  8. Mr. Sorrell refused to comment beyond a statement in which he voiced disappointment and said he hoped the resignations "will bring this period of uncertainty to an end."
  9. We're better off independent." Premier Robert Bourassa has categorically rejected suggestions for extending the Saturday deadline. "There will be a profound disappointment, sadness and much disillusionment in Quebec," he said.
  10. Most of these gloomy diagnoses are linked, directly or indirectly, to a sense of disappointment, even despair, over Britain's economic performance since the second world war. But is this despair really justified?
  11. Kidding, Marla," he said. "I love him, too." Even Barbara Bush told reporters Sunday that her one disappointment at the dinner was that she failed to catch a glimpse of the face that has graced a thousand tabloids.
  12. They could not agree and parted in disappointment.
  13. Bennett said the city's record murder rate in 1989 was "a bitter disappointment to all concerned," but that the overall situation was not as negative as some had expected.
  14. At least 2,800 people have written to NBC to express their disappointment with the cancellation of "A Year in the Life." Television critics have similar letters.
  15. But at a congressional hearing Monday, two key senators expressed disappointment that the summit produced no trade breakthroughs.
  16. A spokesman for the Austin, Texas, companies expressed disappointment at Community Psychiatric's decision. HealthVest needed more time to evaluate the contingent payments in the package, he said.
  17. Stefan Abrams, chief investment strategist at Kidder Peabody, says market disappointment over the Federal Reserve's reluctance to ease interest rates further is now pretty much reflected in stock prices.
  18. Ronald Sapiro, head trader for Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., said the markets used their disappointment in the report as an excuse to dump dollars.
  19. The crop markets opened lower, led by the soybean complex, amid disappointment that the Bush administration announced no grain export credits to the Soviet Union after Sunday's summit meeting.
  20. Foreign exchange traders had expected a payroll increase of about 300,000, so the Labor Department's numbers came as a disappointment.
  21. Manufacturers owed money by Bonwit Teller or B. Altman & Co. expressed both disappointment and caution.
  22. As disappointment deepens there will be further demands, arising from what has become a trade-deficit fixation, to do something more drastic.
  23. The surprise increase in base rates by a number of leading French banks and widespread disappointment across global markets with the outcome of the latest auction of German bunds provided the real trigger for a global slide in equity markets.
  24. Some analysts, however, expressed disappointment in the company's imaging business, which had only a 3% sales increase in the U.S. and a drop in operating profit to $209 million from $212 million.
  25. Halliwell is being left behind, covering his disappointment as clumsily as he covers his bald head with an ill-fitting wig.
  26. The precious-metals markets also registered disappointment at the rise in interest rates but they absorbed the news in a matter of hours, then began moving higher and finished nearly unchanged.
  27. It appears thanks largely to them that the London market managed to shrug off disappointment at the lack of an interest rate cut at the Tory party conference and close the week at a new high.
  28. Despite the disappointment seen in some segments, analysts say the market for Chinese ceramics remains among the most attractive in the international art world.
  29. The BSE index closed at 2,571.18, down 81.22 or 3.1 per cent, as brokers said that the biggest disappointment in the budget was that the government did not cut corporate taxes.
  30. This cuts operating costs significantly. Despite the initial disappointment of Euromessage, a flicker of hope still remains among many in the industry that crossborder paging can yet be made to work.
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