那份下沉的感覺
名詞是把那個瞬間本身當成一個東西來指。
worried disappointment · noun · C2
The worried, disappointed, or unhappy feeling you get when something bad or unwanted happens.
沮喪
核心畫面
Picture the moment the ground drops out. You hear the news — the flight is cancelled, the results came back wrong — and for a second you have no move left. It is not sharp fear and not simple sadness; it is the heavy, sinking mix of shock and disappointment that leaves you unsure what to do next.
聽到消息的那一瞬間，腳下像忽然空掉。班機取消了、成績出來了、你信任的人做了那件事——那半秒鐘你整個人沉下去，既失望又…更多收起
聽到消息的那一瞬間，腳下像忽然空掉。班機取消了、成績出來了、你信任的人做了那件事——那半秒鐘你整個人沉下去，既失望又慌，一時之間不知道接下來該怎麼辦。它不是尖銳的害怕，也不是單純的難過，而是「壞事已經發生、而我沒招了」的那種下沉感。也因為這樣，這個字常出現在正式或書面的語氣裡，配上 to my dismay（讓我沮喪的是）、in dismay（一臉錯愕地）這類說法。From the word’s history
Traced back through Old French esmaier 'to frighten' to a Vulgar Latin *exmagare — roughly 'to take someone's strength away, to make them unable'. That loss of power is still audible in the modern word: dismay is not just feeling bad, it is being knocked out of action.
往回追是古法文 esmaier「使驚恐」，再往上是通俗拉丁文 *exmagare，字面接近「把某人的力氣抽走、讓他做不了事」。那個「力氣被抽掉」的感覺其實還留在現代這個字裡：dismay 不只是心情不好，而是被打得使不上力、暫時失去行動能力——這正好解釋了為什麼它比 disappointment 重，也比它更帶一點無措。
Wiktionary 'dismay' etymology (Middle English dismayen < Anglo-Norman *desmaiier, alteration of Old French esmaier 'to frighten' < Vulgar Latin *exmagare < ex- + *magare).
Two branches
讓別人沉下去
同一份感覺換成從外面造成它：動詞把畫面裡的箭頭轉向別人。
cause worried disappointment · verb · C2
To make someone feel worried, disappointed, and upset about something that has happened.
使沮喪
原始詞典資料5 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。
dismayverb/dɪsˈmeɪ/
- 1
To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy.
- Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.
- What words be these? What fears do you dismay?
- 2
To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
- Do not dismay yourself for this.
- 3
To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
- Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
dismaynoun/dɪsˈmeɪ/
- 1
A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits
- He looked in dismay at the destruction of the town caused by the hurricane.
- Come on: in this there can be no dismay; My ships come home a month before the day.
- 2
Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
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。