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 letdown ['letdaun]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 减低, 减退, 松弛, 失望

[化] 调漆




    letdown
    [ noun ]
    a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized
    <noun.feeling>
    his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment


    1. On the short end, the two-year note was down 1/32 at 100 5/32 , to yield 4.149 per cent. With traders widely anticipating a very positive reading, the release of November price data was somewhat of a letdown.
    2. "Strong home building in 1987 is the difference between a gentle letdown and something worse," Mr. Christie said.
    3. "Frankly, it is a letdown to the law enforcement groups in America," Metzenbaum said.
    4. But the much-anticipated morbid jazzfest is a letdown, and few of the novel's large assortment of suspects and potential victims are very credible or engaging.
    5. The heartland was rather a letdown.
    6. "You kind of start counting on things and then you have a big letdown," said Chapman. "I've just made up my mind not to count on anything." His doctors said they were presenting other treatment options to Chapman, whose leukemia is in remission.
    7. Frustrating doesn't make it. Neither does thwarted, letdown or dissatisfied.
    8. The letdown came because Universal Pictures had been promoting him for best actor, and he had been nominated for a Golden Globe in that category.
    9. "To hear there's only one shift is a big letdown for everybody," he added. "We all feel like we've been had." Stock prices in London were slightly higher at midday Friday, but trading volume remained thin ahead of Christmas.
    10. There has been a consequent letdown in political suspense; and, since too many reporters these days cover politics as if it were a form of horse racing, the press is now doing its best to pump drama into the vice presidential nominations.
    11. For the user, there's a letdown and then, quickly, a desire for more of the drug.
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