letdown

1. N-VAR 令人失望的事；失望；沮丧
   A let-down is a disappointment that you suffer, usually because something has not happened in the way in which you expected it to happen.
   1. The flat was really very nice, but compared with what we'd been used to, it was a terrible let-down...
      这套公寓真的很不错，但比起我们以往住的地方，那就差太远了。
   2. The sense of let-down today is all the greater because in the past doctors have been over-confident about these treatments.
      医生们过去对这些疗法过度自信，导致今天的挫败感尤其强烈。

1. That's a bit of a letdown after three articles on using the Document Object Model, isn't it?
   阅读了三篇关于使用文档对象类型的文章之后，再来讨论它是不是很简单了？
2. It's just like being unable to conceal your letdown expression when unwrapping that pair of socks at Secret Santa parties.
   这就像是当你打开一双秘密圣诞老人的袜子时，你表露出的那种无法掩饰的失望表情。
3. Several of the women I interviewed said themselves that this contributed to the huge feeling of letdown when things did not turn out as they had planned.
   我采访的几个女性称，当事情的结果不像她们计划的那样时，她们会感到极其失望。
4. By losing and feeling a letdown, you should become thirsty to try again or at least feel the glory of winning and success.
   通过失败，感受到失望，你应该会更加想再次尝试，至少能感受到赢取成功后的荣誉感。
5. Afterwards, going back to my old racquet was a bit of a letdown.
   但是用回我的旧球拍之后，我又有点松劲了。
6. You are likely to realize that someone you thought you wanted to be with is a bit of a letdown.
   你可能开始觉得你以为想和他一起的那个人有点让你失望。
7. I awoke vastly invigorated and rather irritable. A letdown, as after a period of excitement.
   我醒来的时候极度兴奋，而且有点暴燥。
8. LL: Well, my History Professor is a real letdown.
   你们历史教授在学术界是挺有名的，可是你说他不太会讲课：呀，那确实是挺让学生失望的。
9. The movie was a letdown.
   那电影真令人失望。
10. I thought the movie would be very interesting, but it turned out to be a letdown.
    我本以为那部电影会很好看，结果是部令人失望的电影。
11. I was told my friend Joe was speaking ill of me. That's a real letdown.
    有人告诉我说我的朋友乔说我的坏话，这可真令我失望。
12. Her supposed comeback album has been completely written off by critics. That's a terrible letdown for her.
    她的复出专辑不被评论家看好，这可太令她失望了。
13. LL: Well, I liked the two rollercoaster rides, the park itself was kind of a letdown.
    是啊，我知道你喜欢过山车，要不然也不会连着坐两次啊！
14. Similarly, the higher the expectations, the bigger the letdown when they are not met.
    同样的，期望越高，震撼也就越强烈。
15. He found himself completely unable to suppress a sense of disappointment, of letdown.
    他感到自己有一种完全无法抑制的受挫和失望的感觉。
16. Well, that film was a bit of a letdown.
    唉，那部电影真有点让人失望。
17. The concert was a real letdown.
    这场音乐会实在让人失望。
18. What a letdown! That is not as juicy as I think.
    太令人失望了！不如我想像的那么有趣。
19. Star Wars was such a letdown.
    《星际大战》真是令人失望。
20. A letdown is worth a few songs.
    一次失望的经历能让我写很多歌。
21. It was a big letdown that I didn't know him.
    不认识他真是一件让人失望的事。
22. What a letdown! That is not as juicy as I thought. Your decision comes as a great disappointment.
    太令人失望了！不如我想像的那么有趣。您的决定真是很令人失望。
23. Everybody told us we were in for a letdown when we came here.
    我们来这儿时大家都说我们一定会失望的。
24. Letdown the level of inflation is the main task for the new government.
    新政府的主要任务是减低通货膨胀的水平。
25. That's a real letdown.
    这真叫人失望。
26. It's kind of a letdown when a movie begins by redefining the nature of reality, and ends with a shoot-out.
    电影一开始，现实被重新定义了，然后结尾用一场扫射解决了战斗。
27. There was so much hype before the picture was released and the picture itself was a letdown.
    这部影片发行前被吹得天花乱坠，等影片上演时却相形见绌。
28. I was told my girlfriend was speaking ill of me. It's a real letdown.
    我听说我女朋友在谈论我的坏话，这真让人泄气。
29. Yet despite the astronauts'protestations that the Moon itself was a letdown, which of us, given the chance, wouldn't want to go there?
    尽管航天员们声称月球本身令人失望，但是假如有机会，我们谁不想去登登月球呢？
30. But in reality, it's always just a big letdown.
    但在现实里，通常会让人失望。

noun

1. a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized
   1. his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment

   Synonym:    disappointment