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regret

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [rɪˈɡret]
  • 美式音标 [rɪˈɡrɛt]
  • 国际音标 [ri'ɡret]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • vt. 后悔；对……感到遗憾；礼貌或正式地表示惋惜或抱歉；对（损失或缺乏）感到痛惜
  • vi. 遗憾
  • n. 遗憾，歉意

词源解说

  • 1300年左右进入英语，直接源自古法语的regreter：re (强调） + greter (哀悼），意为很久之后；最初源自古日耳曼语的gretan，意为流泪，哭泣。

同根派生

  • adj性质的同根词
    regretful：后悔的，遗憾的；惋惜的。
    regrettable：令人遗憾的；可惜的；可悲的；抱歉的。
  • adv性质的同根词
    regrettably：遗憾地；抱歉地；可悲地。
    regretfully：懊悔地，遗憾地；抱歉地。

用法辨析

    v. (动词)

  • regret的基本意思是“懊悔,惋惜,遗憾”,指对于已经发生或不愿发生但又不得不发生的事情在心里产生一种伤感或抱歉,但已经没有挽回的余地。引申还可指“抱歉”。
  • regret既可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,后接名词、代词、动名词或that/wh-从句作宾语。可用于被动结构。
  • regret后接名词,表示对某事后悔; 后接动词不定式表示因将要做某事而感到抱歉或不快; 后接动名词表示因做了某事而感到后悔; 后接从句表示对某事感到遗憾。
  • regret后接动词不定式的完成体也可表示对已发生之事感到遗憾、后悔,但不如接动名词常见。

    • n. (名词)

  • regret用作名词时意思是“懊悔,遗憾”,指对失落物的悲伤、惋惜,也指对已做过或没有成功的事表示懊悔或不愉快,也可指对自己无能为力做某事感到懊悔,常用作不可数名词。regret还可指“痛惜”“失望”“悔恨”“辞谢帖”等。
  • regret在表达一般的歉意时要用单数形式,由于谢绝而表示的歉意,则要用其复数形式或加much这个形容词。另外, regret在表示“辞谢帖”时多用复数形式。
  • regret前可用much, little, no等修饰,表示遗憾的程度。
  • 用于“报告不开心的事”的表达方式有I regret that，I regret to say that，I regret to have to announce that等，语气的轻重不同。I regret to tell you that my brother died yesterday afternoon. 我很遗憾地告诉你，我哥哥昨天下午去世了。
  • 表示“因……而感觉悲哀或不开心”时，常在regret后接不定式。I regret to hear of your sister's death. 我为你妹妹的死而感到悲哀。

英汉例句

    用作动词 (v.)

    用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

  • Men will say things when their blood is up which, and they regret after they have cooled down.
    人们发怒时会说一些过分的话,当他们冷静下来又感到后悔。

    • 用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

  • You'll regret this.
    这事你将会后悔的。

    • S+～+to- v

  • We regret to inform you that we cannot help you.
    我们很遗憾地通知您,我们无法帮助您。

    • S+～+ v -ing

  • I regret selling the house.
    我后悔卖了房子。

    • S+～+that-clause

  • I regret that I shall not be able to come.
    很遗憾,我不能来。

    • S+～+wh-clause

  • I regret what I said.
    我为自己说过的话感到后悔。

    • It is/was+ n./pron. +to be ～ed+that-clause

  • It is much to be regretted that you can't join us in the trip.
    你不能和我们一道去旅行,真是很遗憾。

    • 用作名词 (n.)

  • Please accept my regret.
    请接受我的歉意。

词组短语

    用作动词 (v.)

    ～+名词

  • regret choice 对选择感到后悔
  • regret the ignorance 对无知感到遗憾
  • regret the lost opportunity 对失掉的机会而感到惋惜

    • ～+副词

  • regret half 有些遗憾
  • regret much 深感遗憾
  • regret bitterly 深感遗憾

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • a feeling of sadness about something sad or wrong or about a mistake that you have made, and a wish that it could have been different and better
  • to feel sorry about a situation, especially something sad or wrong or a mistake that you have made

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you regret something that you have done, you wish that you had not done it.
  • Regret is a feeling of sadness or disappointment, which is caused by something that has happened or something that you have done or not done.
  • You can say that you regret something as a polite way of saying that you are sorry about it. You use expressions such as I regret to say or I regret to inform you to show that you are sorry about something.

专业释义

    文学

  • 遗憾

    What makes us regret is that there is still no deserved succession to Lu Xuns introspection on national character and cultural tradition.
    令人遗憾的是,鲁迅对民族性格和文化传统的反省仍然没有得到应有的继承。

    经济学

  • 后悔

    In addition, Mental Accounting, Ambiguity Aversion and Regret Aversion also make preferences of investors deviate the classical rational theories.
    此外,心理会计、模糊厌恶和后悔厌恶也使得投资者的偏好选择行为偏离了经典的理性理论。

  • 抱歉

    • 艺术学

  • 后悔

    Many researches have demonstrated the sunk cost effect is affected by decision goal, regret, initial investment, mental account and situational factors. It is unclear that decision goal and individual difference affect the sunk cost effect.
    许多研究表明成本沉没效应受决策目标、后悔、初始投资、心理账户、情境性因素的影响,然而并没有综合考虑决策目标和个体差异对成本沉没效应的作用。

    语言学

  • 遗憾

    But to their regret, they failed to find a completely satisfactory one.
    但遗憾的是，到目前为止，还没有一个理论能令人感到十分满意。