regret
英[r?'gret]
美[r?'ɡr?t]
- n. 遺憾；抱歉；悲嘆
- vt. 后悔；惋惜；哀悼
- vi. 感到后悔；感到抱歉
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?regrets;過去式:?regretted;過去分詞:?regretted;現在分詞:?regretting;
中文詞源
regret 遺憾，懊悔
re-,表強調，-gret,哭喊，呼叫，詞源同 greet.引申詞義遺憾，懊悔。
英文詞源
- regret
- regret: [14] The origins of regret are not altogether clear, but it may mean etymologically ‘weep over again’. It was borrowed from Old French regreter, which could have been based on a prehistoric Germanic verb *grētan ‘weep’ (source of archaic English greet ‘weep’).
- regret (v.)
- "to look back with distress or sorrowful longing; to grieve for on remembering," late 14c., from Old French regreter "long after, bewail, lament someone's death; ask the help of" (Modern French regretter), from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + -greter, possibly from Frankish or some other Germanic source (compare Old English gr?tan "to weep;" Old Norse grata "to weep, groan"), from Proto-Germanic *gretan "weep." "Not found in other Romance languages, and variously explained" [Century Dictionary].
Related: Regretted; regretting. Replaced Old English oftyncan, from of- "off, away," here denoting opposition, + tyncan "seem, seem fit" (as in methinks). - regret (n.)
- "pain or distress in the mind at something done or left undone," 1530s, from the verb, or from Middle French regret, back-formation from regreter (see regret (v.)).
雙語例句
- 1. Failure is never quite so frightening as regret do.
- 比失敗更令人恐懼的是懊悔。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
- 2. From Cairo came expressions of regret at the attack.
- 開羅對此次攻擊表示遺憾。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Her lack of co-operation is nothing new, I regret to say.
- 很遺憾，我不得不說她缺少合作精神不是什么新鮮事。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. We regret to inform you that you are being furloughed indefinitely.
- 我們遺憾地通知您，您將要無限期地在家待崗。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. They will bitterly regret what they have done for ever more.
- 他們會為自己的所作所為痛悔終生。
來自柯林斯例句