disappoint: [15] Disappoint (a borrowing from French désappointer) originally meant ‘remove from a post or office, sack’ – that is, literally, ‘deprive of an appointment’; ‘A monarch … hath power … to appoint or to disappoint the greatest officers’, Thomas Bowes, De La Primaudraye’s French academie 1586. This semantic line has now died out, but parallel with it was a sense ‘fail to keep an appointment’, which appears to be the ancestor of modern English ‘fail to satisfy, frustrate, thwart’.
disappoint (v.)
early 15c., "dispossess of appointed office," from Middle French desappointer (14c.) "undo the appointment, remove from office," from des- (see dis-) + appointer "appoint" (see appoint).
Modern sense of "to frustrate expectations" (late 15c.) is from secondary meaning of "fail to keep an appointment." Related: Disappointed; disappointing.
雙語例句
1. Her decision to cancel the concert is bound to disappoint her fans.
她決定取消這場音樂會，肯定會使她的歌迷失望。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. He's building me up too much — I may disappoint him.
他將我捧上了天,我可能會令他失望.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. I'm sorry to disappoint your hope.
對不起,我使你失望了.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. Rather than break her appointment and disappoint me, Katie again took the car.
凱蒂又一次把車開來了，而沒有爽約讓我失望。
來自柯林斯例句
5. I promised to buy my son a new bicycle but I had to disappoint him.