let down

/let-doun/US // ˈlɛtˌdaʊn //

辜负,辜负了,失望,辜负了人们的期望

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a decrease in volume, force, energy, etc.: a letdown in sales; a general letdown of social barriers.
- : disillusionment, discouragement, or disappointment: The job was a letdown.
- : depression; deflation: He felt a terrible letdown at the end of the play.
- : the accelerated movement of milk into the mammary glands of lactating mammals upon stimulation, as by massage or suckling.
- : Aeronautics. the descent of an aircraft from a higher to a lower altitude preparatory to making an approach and landing or to making a target run or the like.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdisappoint

Synonyms

abandon抛弃,放弃,舍弃,弃置 depress压抑,沮丧,沮丧的,压抑的 disenchant失宠,失恋,丧失信心,失宠的人 disillusion幻灭,幻灭感,幻想破灭,幻觉 dissatisfy不满意,不满,不满意度,不满意的 fail不合格,失败,不及格,不成功 fall short亏损,亏欠,亏空,不及格 leave in lurch放任自流,搁置不顾,搁置不前,搁置

Examples

It was an unprecedented public involvement in the normally secret negotiations, and it was a painful letdown for many that you could see coming hours before it happened.
So many times through the first 18 games of the season, the Wizards have come out on the wrong end of these fights, mostly because of a defensive letdown.
If there’s a letdown of behaviors, it’s going to find a way.
It doesn’t fly around like a drone, though, so it’s kind of a letdown after the previous announcement.
When I came back, I just knew that it would feel a bit like a letdown after having had the chance to play in Australia for a full season.
Over the next couple of years, though, some felt a letdown when they discovered that Borges had written no long works.
Marlow: Only a bit of a letdown up until the final handful of episodes!
Kent Sepkowitz wrote this past spring that other HIV "cures" didn't last long and this one was likely to be a letdown.
After the election night letdown the film jumps back to Christmas 2006.
The film is a hard-to-find creature, a smart rom-com that captures the exuberance of falling in love, and the inevitable letdown.
Someone else—Crag was never quite sure who—wanted an exact description of how the Aztec had handled during letdown.
Knowing that nothing was in sight but waiting was a letdown after the activity of the predawn hours.
For most people, the experience of hypnosis is something of a letdown.
No matter how you looked at the situation, the kid was in for a big letdown.

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let down

/let-doun/US // ˈlɛtˌdaʊn //

辜负,辜负了,失望,辜负了人们的期望

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a decrease in volume, force, energy, etc.: a letdown in sales; a general letdown of social barriers.
- : disillusionment, discouragement, or disappointment: The job was a letdown.
- : depression; deflation: He felt a terrible letdown at the end of the play.
- : the accelerated movement of milk into the mammary glands of lactating mammals upon stimulation, as by massage or suckling.
- : Aeronautics. the descent of an aircraft from a higher to a lower altitude preparatory to making an approach and landing or to making a target run or the like.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdisappoint

Synonyms

Examples

It was an unprecedented public involvement in the normally secret negotiations, and it was a painful letdown for many that you could see coming hours before it happened.
So many times through the first 18 games of the season, the Wizards have come out on the wrong end of these fights, mostly because of a defensive letdown.
If there’s a letdown of behaviors, it’s going to find a way.
It doesn’t fly around like a drone, though, so it’s kind of a letdown after the previous announcement.
When I came back, I just knew that it would feel a bit like a letdown after having had the chance to play in Australia for a full season.
Over the next couple of years, though, some felt a letdown when they discovered that Borges had written no long works.
Marlow: Only a bit of a letdown up until the final handful of episodes!
Kent Sepkowitz wrote this past spring that other HIV "cures" didn't last long and this one was likely to be a letdown.
After the election night letdown the film jumps back to Christmas 2006.
The film is a hard-to-find creature, a smart rom-com that captures the exuberance of falling in love, and the inevitable letdown.
Someone else—Crag was never quite sure who—wanted an exact description of how the Aztec had handled during letdown.
Knowing that nothing was in sight but waiting was a letdown after the activity of the predawn hours.
For most people, the experience of hypnosis is something of a letdown.
No matter how you looked at the situation, the kid was in for a big letdown.

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