letting down

letting down

美 　英

• na.拋棄；放下；損壞威信
• 網絡下滑；致死率曲線

詞形變化

第三人稱單數：lets down  現在分詞：letting down  

英漢解釋

na.	1. 拋棄,使失望 2. 放落,放下 3. 損壞威信,丟面子,搞臭

英英解釋

na.

1. to make someone disappointed by not doing something that they are expecting you to do; to work less hard or make more mistakes than the people who you are working with 2. to make someone or something less likely to be successful or effective 3. to allow the air to go out of something such as a car tire 4. to allow someone or something to move to a lower position 5. to use the extra cloth in the hembottom fold of a piece of clothing to make it longer 6. to try to give someone bad news in a way that does not upset them too much 7. to work less hard or to make more mistakes than the people who you are working with

例句

He berated me for letting down the President by not restricting the number of NSC participants.

他訓斥我沒有限制參加國家安全委員會會議的人數，這樣辦事對不起總統。

Again, police stress they know of no specific threat against the Oscars, but letting down their guard is simply not an option.

警方強調他們所知目前沒有確切的將對奧斯卡盛典構成威脅的事件，但是要讓他們放松警惕是不可能的。

That means letting down our guard to expose our pain instead of covering it up with anger.

這，意味著放下防衛之心，顯露出我們的痛苦，而不是用憤怒來遮蓋住痛苦。

He was afraid of letting down his parents, so he studied hard to get into university.

他很害怕讓他的父母失望，所以努力學習考上了大學。

cried her companion, letting down all the glasses.

她的同伴叫道，把玻璃窗全部放下來。

I have a dread of letting down Ray's contributors, who are expecting to see their work in his magazine.

我很害怕自己會讓雷的撰稿人們失望，他們都希望看到自己的作品出現在他的雜志上。

It means letting down your team.

這意味著會讓你的隊伍失望。

he could fire his manager and his lawyer, after years of service, without a trace of sentiment, for letting down the brand;

他能因未能振興品牌解雇自己的經紀人和律師，絲毫不顧多年效勞情面；

letting down a rope and pulling them up

放下繩子，把他們拉上來