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To displease someone is to make them or not satisfied. They are not happy with what you did, said, or failed to do. It is a rather formal, slightly old-fashioned verb. Parents, bosses, and older writing still use it; in casual talk people more often say , upset, or they're not happy with it. You often meet it as displeased — the way the person feels after — or in careful sentences like "I don't want to displease her." Though actually, it is milder than making someone furious. It is more about failing to please, or falling short of what they hoped, than about a big fight. You can displease one person or a whole group by breaking a rule they care about.
使不悅、惹某人不高興
組成English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere). dis- turns please around: to do the opposite of pleasing someone.
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- pleasethe opposite action: to make someone glad
- displeasurethe noun for the annoyed, not-satisfied feeling
- pleasuresame family; pleasure is the good feeling please is aiming at
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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displeaseverb/dɪsˈpliːz/
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To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
- The boy's rudeness displeased me.
- I felt displeased with the boy.
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To give displeasure or offense.
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obsoleteTo fail to satisfy; to miss of.
- I shall displease my ends else.
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。