disappoint

/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/📚 8361 107 1四级六级考研高考
If things or people disappoint you, they are not as good as you had hoped, or do not do what you hoped they would do. 使失望

verb [vt. 及物动词]使失望;使破灭,使落空

She would do anything she could to please him, but she knew that she was fated to disappoint him.
她愿意做任何事情来讨好他,但她知道她注定会让他失望。

dis- 加在名词、形容词,动词之前,表示"不是的,消失掉"、"分开,分离"。disappoint v. 使失望(dis 使消散 + appoint任命,指派;约定,安排)
-point- punct= point,make sharp, 表示“点,变尖”disappoint v. 使失望;受挫折(dis 不+appoint→不[被] 指派→失望)
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