英语释义

• fail to meet the hopes or expectations of;

  "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage"

• move something or somebody to a lower position;

  "take down the vase from the shelf"

片语

boron let-down减硼

lower(Lower) （美、英）洛厄（人名）

let someone down softly婉言拒绝某人

disappoint使失望

You let me down你太让我失望了

instrument let-down仪表引导下降

Never Let Me Down不要让我伤心

Let us down让我们失望

let-down phase刺激奶阵阶段

fail失败，不及格；破产；缺乏；衰退

Spirit let me down当我的情绪低落

英汉例句

• opponents of free schools are defending an educational establishment that has let down pupils and accepts failure as a fact of life, david cameron has said.

  大卫·卡梅伦称，反对免费学校的人是在保卫失败的教育制度，这种制度让学生失望，把失败当成了正常的生活。

• the plane let down gently before landing at the airport.

  飞机在机场着陆以前徐徐下降。

• she promises a break with the past that appeals to those who feel let down by successive governments. and she has broad support.

  季莫申科会和过去不同的的承诺对那些对历届政府感到失望的选民很有吸引力并且获得了广泛的支持。

• that might sound like a let down for economies that enjoyed average growth of 9% in the three years to 2007.

  对于2007年之前三年平均经济增长率达到9％的经济体来说，这听起来好像减速不少。

• walking with his head down along the interstate, his heartbeat rose whenever he caught sight of a plastic bottle, only to be let down when it didn「t contain urine.

  他低着头沿着州际公路走，每当看到一个塑料瓶他就心跳加速，只是如果里面没有尿的话就又降下来。

• 「while reports from mexico appear to be encouraging, and some are cautiously optimistic, we cannot afford to let down our vigilance, 」 she said.

  「虽然来自墨西哥的报告似乎是令人鼓舞的，有些是持谨慎乐观的态度，但是我们仍不能放松警惕， 」她说。

• let down thy hair.

  把你的头发垂下来。

• but if the generals have not always done well by the politicians, the politicians have far more often let down the generals.

  但是如果政客们认为将军们并不总是表现良好，政客们让将军们失望却要常见得多。

• perhaps my independence stemmed from my unwillingness to rely on or open up to anyone else for fear that i would be emotional hurt or let down (again?).

  可能我的独立来源于不愿意依赖任何人或对任何人打开心房，我害怕（再次？）受到情感上的伤害或失望。

• it says countries must not let down their guard, but must remain vigilant in monitoring the evolution of the influenza a, h1n1 virus, which is being called swine flu.

  该组织说，各个国家一定不要掉以轻心，而是要继续保持戒备，监督目前被称为猪流感的甲型h1n1流感病毒的变异发展。

• it was not a decision taken lightly, and the first time i sprayed the trees i felt like i had let down an entire generation: my generation, the woodstock generation.

  我并不是草草率率的做出决定的，其实早在我第一次喷射农药时候，我就深深感到我辜负了一整个时代的人：我的一代——伍斯托克的一代。

• the lesson for companies let down by amazon」s outage is that they need to be aware of the risks of being too reliant on a single supplier, with cloud computing as with anything else.

  对于那些受亚马逊中断影响而感到沮丧的公司而言，他们应该意识到对单一供应商——提供云计算也好，其它服务也好——过于信赖的风险。

• she wanted to have her skirt let down several centimetres.

  她想把裙子放长几厘米。

• it’s quite common for people to come back from big, life-changing trips, and feel let down because no one seems very interested in what they saw or thought or experienced.

  从出趟远门、改变一生的旅游回来，而且感觉很放松，这对人们来说相当普遍，因为似乎没有人对看到什么、想什么或者经历了什么感兴趣。

• its expert researchers and analysts still continue in their work, but sometimes feel let down by what the leadership chooses to showcase.

  其专家研究员和分析家继续从事它们的工作，但是有时候会因为领导层所选择展示的东西而感到失望。

• for domestic reasons, it cannot let down serbs in kosovo, whatever they do; but neither can it seem obstructive in the talks sponsored by the commission, since it is desperate to join the eu.

  因为国内的因素，塞尔维亚不会辜负在科索沃的塞族人，不管他们怎么折腾；但是鑒于会谈是欧洲委员会主办的，而它又那么迫切地想要加入欧盟，似乎它也不能阻碍会谈。

• the boy let down his fist.

  男孩放下了拳头。

• through a window i was let down in a basket by the wall, andescaped his hands.

  我就从窗户中，在筐子里从城墻上被人缒下去，脱离了他的手。

• it is a pity, then, that her scholarship is let down by feeble illustrations.

  不过遗憾的是，苍白无力的插图令她的学识打了不少折扣。

• a similar percentage felt let down by a lack of images on travel sites.

  另外，有相同比例的受访者表示旅游网站缺少图片让他们失望。

相似词

deflate缩小；物价下降

disappointed失望的，沮丧的；受挫折的

disappoint使失望

相反词

content(Content)人名；(法)孔唐

contentment满足；满意

gratification满意；喜悦；使人满意之事

satisfaction满意，满足；赔偿；乐事；赎罪