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.
例文
1. Her decision to cancel the concert is bound to disappoint her fans.
彼女はこのコンサートをキャンセルすることにした。彼女のファンを失望させるに違いない。
2.He 's building me up too much-I may disappoint him.
彼は私を天に捧げたので、私は彼を失望させるかもしれません。
3.I 'm sorry to disappoint your hope.
申し訳ありませんが、私はあなたを失望させました。
4.Rathan break her appointment and disappoint me,Katie again took the car.
ケイティは再び車を運転したが、約束を破って失望させなかった。
5.I promised to buy my son a new bicycle but I had to disappoint him.