1·According to some, the letdown can be explained in three words: the U.S. Senate.
某种意义上来说，这一失望结果可以用五个字来解释：美国参议院。
2·Its short, sloping rear end looks droopy and, in a letdown for practicality, a small trunk lid makes loading large items difficult or impossible even though the trunk itself is huge.
虽然后备箱很大，但后盖较小，使得大物件很难甚至不可能装卸，在实用性方面令人失望。
3·LL: I'm glad you remember that. My first trip to the Great Wall WAS truly a letdown. It was so crowded with tourists and souvenir peddlers.
你怎么到哪儿都嫌人多啊？长城是有名的旅游景点，当然有各地的游客啦，还有小商贩卖纪念品！哎，不过，你刚才说，你第一次去长城让你失望，那后来你再去是不是就感觉好多了？LL: Yeah, that second trip rocked!
4·Yet despite the astronauts' protestations that the Moon itself was a letdown, which of us, given the chance, wouldn't want to go there?
尽管宇航员明言月球本身令人失望，但是，如果有机会，我们之中哪个人不想去月球走一趟？
5·As thoroughly lovable as the movie is, most of the running time is a crushing letdown because it follows about 15 minutes of some of the finest filmmaking I’ve seen in my life.
影片有15分钟左右的时间是在模仿一些我最喜欢的电影，这不免有些令人失望，不过总体它还是一部可爱的电影。