Picture the small drop inside you when the thing you were looking forward to turns out smaller than you pictured it. The word names that drop — and then, by a very ordinary English move, it also names whatever caused it.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
disappointmentnoun/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt/
- 1
The feeling or state of being disappointed: a feeling of sadness or frustration when something is not as good as one hoped or expected, or when something bad unexpectedly happens.
- Even a trip to beautiful California can cause disappointment.
- They remembered too keenly their pleasant credulity as to what to-morrow would bring forth, to dare indulge expectation of its pleasure; they had been disappointed once—so might they be again—for disappointment ever leaves fear behind.
- 2
An example or the act of disappointing: a circumstance in which a positive expectation is not achieved.
- The disappointment with our trip to California caused bickering.
- For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
- 3
Something or someone that disappoints: that which causes disappointment.
- Even a trip to beautiful California can be a disappointment.
- What a disappointment!
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。