- 1aB1
/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪŋ/
Not as good as you hoped or expected, so it leaves you feeling a bit sad or let down. It describes the thing itself — a result, a game, a trip, a piece of news — not the person who feels it.
令人失望的
比較級 more disappointing最高級 most disappointing
核心畫面
You can picture the small drop between what you were hoping for and what actually turned up. Nothing terrible happened — the thing just came in lower than the picture you were carrying, and that gap is what the word points at.
可以想成你心裡本來提著一個期待的高度,結果東西端上來,比那個高度低了一截。沒有很糟,也不是壞掉,只是和你原本想的對不…更多收起
可以想成你心裡本來提著一個期待的高度,結果東西端上來,比那個高度低了一截。沒有很糟,也不是壞掉,只是和你原本想的對不起來,中間空出一小段落差——disappointing 指的就是那段落差。重要的是它形容「那個東西」(結果、比賽、旅行、消息),不是形容心裡難受的那個人;人要用 disappointed。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
disappointingadj
- 1
Causing disappointment.
- disappointing results / news; a disappointing experience
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。