regret

B2 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #1879 ★★★☆☆

n. 遗憾, 后悔, 悔恨, 抱歉, 歉意 vt. 为...感到遗憾, 后悔, 惋惜, 懊悔, 抱歉 vi. 感到抱歉

发音

US /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/

词形变化

regrets 复数 regrets regrets 三单 regretted regrettest regretteth regretting regretting 现在分词 regretted 过去式 regretted 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

遗憾；抱歉；悲叹

sadness that you feel about something, especially because you wish it had not happened

动词

后悔；惋惜；哀悼

to feel sorry about something you have done and wish you had not done it

动词

感到后悔；感到抱歉

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Dislike; aversion.

    遗憾

    后悔

    可数 废旧 不可数
  3. 3.

    The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    A person invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.

    可数 不可数
v. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.

    He regretted his words.

  2. 2.

    To feel sorry about (any thing).

    I regret that I have to do this, but I don't have a choice.

    They said they regretted to inform us that the train would be late.

  3. 3.

    To miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.

    古体 及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

sorrow rue ruefulness

上位词 2

sadness unhappiness

下位词 6

remorse contrition attrition compunction contriteness self-reproach
动词

同义词 2

rue repent

上位词 6

feel miss experience refuse inform decline

下位词 1

fear

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词源

From Middle English regretten, regreten, from Old French regreter, regrater (“to lament”), from re- (intensive prefix) + *greter, *grater (“to weep”), from Frankish *grātan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d- (“to sound”); and Frankish *greutan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd- (“to weep, be sad”), equivalent to re- + greet. Cognate with Old High German grāzan (“to cry”), Old English grǣtan (“to weep, greet”), Old English grēotan (“to weep, lament”), Old Norse gráta (“to weep, groan”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 (grētan, “to weep”). More at greet.

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