let down
US /lɛt daʊn/
・UK /let daun/
A1 初級
phr. v.片語動詞辜負
phr. v.片語動詞使失望
I was let down when I couldn't go on vacation with them
phr. v.片語動詞放低
Don't let down your guard in war
phr. v.片語動詞放氣
They had to let down the tires to drive on the sand.
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長髮公主下定決心！ | 魔髮奇緣 | 迪士尼公主 (Rapunzel Sets Her Intentions | Tangled | Disney Princess)
- Let down your hair!
別讓她看到你媽媽我就快滿 18 歲了，我想知道我真正想要的生日禮物是什麼。
- Let down your hair!
別讓她看到你媽媽我就快滿 18 歲了，我想知道我真正想要的生日禮物是什麼。
為何你會愛上錯的人？──哲學家艾倫·狄·波頓揭露人生必修課！ (Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person - Alain de Botton)
- The love that we will have tasted as children will also be bound up with experiences of being let down, being humiliated, maybe being with a parent who treated us very harshly, who scolded us, who made us feel small in some way.
生命。
- being let down, being humiliated, maybe being with a parent who treated us very harshly,
被辜負，被羞辱，也許是與父母誰對待我們非常苛刻。
波愛修斯《哲學的慰藉》！ (Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy)
- And unsurprisingly, we are continually let down here too, the wheel of fortune spinning us randomly from promise to disgrace, from hope to ruin. Boethius' provocative message to his own times and to our own is that the best way to find peace of mind may be to perceive the ingredients we associate with happiness as in truth direct conduits to a fundamental instability and thereby to inner torment and anxiety. Boethius' wisdom was to be the last eloquent outcry of the guiding ideas of classical philosophy and in particular its Stoic branch. Thereafter, Christianity subsumed its insights, which were then further obscured by the scientific optimism of the modern period. Our own troubled times deserve to witness the rediscovery of the Stoic message. We become philosophers not by writing books or attending university courses, but by appreciating how little of our lives is in our hands, the ubiquity and fickleness of fortune and our need to look beyond public opinion, family, love and status in order to build up serenity through the exercise of one's distinctive and fate-independent mental powers. Boethius was killed, as he feared, a few months after being imprisoned. His grave lies in the church of San Pietro in Celdoro in Pavia, half an hour from Milan. In his honour, we should leave space for Lady Philosophy occasionally to come and visit us and, when we are facing the worst turns of fortune's wheel, let her strengthen our resolve to depend a little less on what was, in fact, never really ours to rely upon.
不出所料，我們在這裡也不斷失望，命運之輪隨意轉動，從承諾到恥辱，從希望到毀滅。波愛修斯向他所處的時代和我們所處的時代發出的啟示是：尋找心靈寧靜的最佳途徑，可能是將我們與幸福聯繫在一起的成分視為通向根本性不穩定的直接通道，從而通向內心的煎熬和焦慮。波愛修的智慧是對古典哲學，尤其是斯多葛派指導思想的最後一次雄辯吶喊。此後，基督教吸收了他的見解，而近代的科學樂觀主義又進一步掩蓋了這些見解。我們這個動盪的時代理應見證斯多葛思想的重新發現。我們要成為哲學家，不是靠著書立說，也不是靠參加大學課程，而是要認識到我們的生
- And, unsurprisingly, we are continually let down here too, the wheel of fortune spinning us randomly from promise to disgrace, from hope to ruin.
男性的孤獨心理學：你瞭解多少？ (The Psychology of Male Loneliness)
- Most would agree that such cards were naturally idiotic and unnecessary - but how useful they might be if they provided even a small opportunity for a few men to let down their guard and reveal a more complex reality.
如果他們從未與其他性別的人進行過坦誠的對話，那也不足為奇，因為在他們的歷史中，幾乎不存在這樣的可能性。
- Most would agree that such cards were naturally idiotic and unnecessary, but how useful they might be if they provided even a small opportunity for a few men to let down their guard and reveal a more complex reality.
大多數人都會認為，這樣的卡片自然是愚蠢和不必要的，但如果它們能為一些人提供哪怕是一個小小的機會，讓他們放鬆警惕，揭示更復雜的現實，那又是多麼有用啊。
「感覺自己像個傻瓜」：吉姆·克萊默說他錯信川普的關稅政策！ (‘I feel like a sucker’: Jim Cramer says he was wrong to have believed Trump on tariffs)
- Well, I'm let down because I yes, I'm not a free trader.
好吧，我失望了，因為我是的，我不是一個自由交易者。
- Well, I'm let down because I yes, I'm not a free trader.
我希望的是，如果你向我們收取 20%的費用，我們就向你收取 20%，而不是我們只讓你付兩成半，你卻不讓我們進去。
測驗：痛苦讓你發展出了哪些隱藏特質？（自我測驗） (Quiz: What Hidden Traits Did You Develop From Pain? (Self test))
- It comes from being ignored, mocked, let down by someone you trusted, being told you were too sensitive when you were just hurting.
因為你知道，脆弱並不總是安全的。
- It comes from being ignored, mocked, let down by someone you trusted, being told you were too sensitive when you were just... hurting.
它來自於被忽視、被嘲笑、被你信任的人辜負、被告知你太敏感，而你只是......受傷了。