regret

英 [r?'gret] 美[r?'ɡr?t]

反義詞

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第三人稱單數:?regrets;過去式:?regretted;過去分詞:?regretted;現在分詞:?regretting;

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。

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.)).

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。

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。

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。