letting down

英 [ˈletɪŋ daʊn]

美 [ˈletɪŋ daʊn]

下滑，（肉牛）掉膘

英英释义

noun

• the act of causing something to move to a lower level
  Synonym:lowering

双语例句

• I need to be so rocked by something, so moved by something that the idea of letting it down or ruining it is painful, and that's what gets you through the shoot, she said.
  我需要因某些东西而震惊而感动以至于放弃或毁掉它是痛苦的，那是让你通过拍摄的东西，她说。
• As a teenager, I felt I was always letting people down.
  当我还是个10几岁的少年的时候，觉得自己总是让人失望。
• Besides letting down your teammates.
  再说还放你队友飞机。
• Faced with the choice between punishing their populations with austerity programmes and letting down foreign creditors, countries may find it easier to disappoint the foreigners.
  面对使用紧缩政策惩罚其民众或是对不起外国债权人，政府会发现让外国人失望可能是更好的选择。正如卡门？
• He has spent all his life in letting down buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
  他把一生花费于把水桶落到枯井里，如今又把残年消耗于把它们吊上来。
• Most people claim they give in to sudden requests because they hate letting others down.
  多数人称自己去对突然出现的请求让步的原因是他们不喜欢叫别人失望。
• I'm not worried about you letting me down.
  我不是担心你会让我失望。
• Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.
  我最不开心的事情就是让大家都失望。
• "This is the place!" cried her companion, letting down all the glasses.
  “就是那个地方！”她的同伴叫道，把玻璃窗全部放下来。
• Letting someone down is not a good thing, feeling a certain indisposition to accept other's kindnesses either.
  存心想亏负人是不好的事，不肯接受人的爱也不好。