disappointed是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 失望的， 扫兴的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's not that," said he, "but she charged him, in the presence of her intended husband, with being disappointed in the hope of fawning upon her for his own advancement, and, if he were to go to her now, it would look true--even to him--and even to her.
-- Mrs. Pocket they held in contempt; but they allowed the poor soul to have been heavily disappointed in life, because that shed a feeble reflected light upon themselves.
-- If you had brought up your adopted daughter wholly in the dark confinement of these rooms, and had never let her know that there was such a thing as the daylight by which she had never once seen your face,--if you had done that, and then, for a purpose had wanted her to understand the daylight and know all about it, you would have been disappointed and angry?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I cannot disguise from you, Jupe,' said Mr. Gradgrind, knitting his brow, 'that the result of your probation there has disappointed me; has greatly disappointed me.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Disappointed of its real womanhood, it had not succeed- ed in becoming boyish, and unsubstantial, and transparent; instead it had gone opaque.
-- Some people do marry to spite themselves, because they're disappointed of something.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.
-- He seemed a little disappointed by the shake of the head that replied to him.
-- Mr Casby seemed a feather's weight disappointed by the last words, having perhaps prepared himself for the visitor's wishing to pay something else.
-- 'You don't seem so,' pouted Flora, 'you take it very coolly, but however I know you are disappointed in me, I suppose the Chinese ladies Mandarinesses if you call them so are the cause or perhaps I am the cause myself, it's just as likely.'
-- A disappointed mind he had, but a mind too firm and healthy for such unwholesome air.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo wasn't ashamed of the great tear that dropped off the end of her nose, and Amy never minded the rumpling of her curls as she hid her face on her mother's shoulder and sobbed out, 'I am a selfish girl!But I'll truly try to be better, so he mayn't be disappointed in me by-and-by.'
-- No stockings hung at the fireplace, and for a mo-ment she felt as much disappointed as she did long ago, when her little sock fell down because it was crammed so full of goodies.
-- A poor woman came in with a pail a mop, and asked Mr. Cutter if he would let her do some scrubbing for a bit of fish, because she hadn't any dinner for her children, and had been disappointed of a day's work.
-- So they agreed to stop complaining, to en-joy the blessings already possessed, and try to deserve them, lest they should be taken away entirely, instead of increased, and I believe they were never disappointed or sorry that they took the old woman's advice.'
-- The smart of her hand and the ache of her heart were forgotten in the sting of the thought, 'I shall have to tell at home, and they will be so disappointed in me!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching that place would offer, till the following Monday.
-- Childe Harold not unfrequently perches himself upon the mast-head of some luckless disappointed whale-ship, and in moody phrase ejaculates: "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sikes, being disappointed of the dog's participation, at once transferred his share in the quarrel to the new comer.
-- said the Jew, turning away with a disappointed countenance from a close perusal of the boy's face.
-- inquired the Jew, with a disappointed countenance.
-- If the truth must be told, he was a little out of temper, for a minute or two, at being disappointed in procuring corroborative evidence of Oliver's story on the very first occasion on which he had a chance of obtaining any.
-- For some time, he appeared doubtful whether he ought to be relieved or disappointed by the intelligence; but at length he breathed more freely; and withdrawing his eyes, observed that it was no great matter.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have been a disappointed man, and my spirits will not bear solitude.
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