letting down

letting down

美 　英

• na.抛弃；放下；损坏威信
• 网络下滑；致死率曲线

词形变化

第三人称单数：lets down  现在分词：letting down  

英汉解释

na.	1. 抛弃,使失望 2. 放落,放下 3. 损坏威信,丢面子,搞臭

英英解释

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.

他训斥我没有限制参加国家安全委员会会议的人数，这样办事对不起总统。

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

警方强调他们所知目前没有确切的将对奥斯卡盛典构成威胁的事件，但是要让他们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.

这，意味着放下防卫之心，显露出我们的痛苦，而不是用愤怒来遮盖住痛苦。

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

他很害怕让他的父母失望，所以努力学习考上了大学。

cried her companion, letting down all the glasses.

她的同伴叫道，把玻璃窗全部放下来。

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

我很害怕自己会让雷的撰稿人们失望，他们都希望看到自己的作品出现在他的杂志上。

It means letting down your team.

这意味着会让你的队伍失望。

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

他能因未能振兴品牌解雇自己的经纪人和律师，丝毫不顾多年效劳情面；

letting down a rope and pulling them up

放下绳子，把他们拉上来