英语释义

1. feeling sorrow or sympathy
I'm so sorry for your loss. We were very sorry to hear the news. She felt sorry for him. [=she felt sympathy and concern for him because of his situation, problems, etc.] He told me to stop feeling sorry for myself. [=to stop indulging in self-pity]

2. feeling regret or penitence
He was sorry about what he had said. "I wanted to apologize," she said, "for my abominable rudeness in laughing at you just now. It was idiotic of me and I don't know why I did it. I'm sorry."
— P. G. Wodehouse "… I'm so sorry, but the tongs were too hot, and so I've made a mess," groaned poor Jo, regarding the little black pancakes with tears of regret.
— Louisa May Alcott I am sorry we have ever differed, and extremely sorry I have ever given you offence.
— Charles Dickens — used to express polite regret
I'm sorry, but I think you're wrong.I'm sorry to interrupt you. —used to introduce disappointing or bad news in a polite way
I'm sorry, but we won't be able to come. — used as an apology for a minor fault or offense
Oh, sorry—that was clumsy of me.I'm late again. Sorry about that. [=I'm sorry; I apologize]

3. mournful, sad
Rilla remembered one moonlit evening of childhood when she had said to her mother, "The moon just looks like a sorry, sorry face."
— Lucy Maud Montgomery

4. inspiring sorrow, pity, scorn, or ridicule pitiful
Their affairs were in a sorry state. Lawrence blushed, and then smiled awkwardly. A man in love is a sorry spectacle.
— Agatha Christie In view of the sorry treatment of the Native Americans of the US, it is time that their voice was heard a little more clearly in contemporary American society.
— Tim Flannery … had been on her way to work when her rusted-out, … sorry excuse for a car … choked on its last drop of gasoline, then died.
— Ingrid Law

5. feeling sorrow or regret

6. feeling sorrow or regret
I'm sorry I lied.

7. causing sorrow, pity, or scorn pitiful
a sorry sight a sorry excuse

片语

Feel sorry for something对某事感到抱歉

Feel sorry for this为此而感到抱歉

Feel sorry for you觉得对不起你

feel sorry for yourself感觉不幸

feel sorry for somebody同情

to feel sorry for哀怜

feel sorry for him对他表示遗憾

feel sorry for myself为我自己感到难过

feel l sorry for为…难过

英汉例句

• perhaps the surest sign that newspapers are doomed is that politicians, so often their targets, are beginning to feel sorry for them.

  报纸业还是在劫难逃，其中最明显的标志就是：过去一贯为他们所评论的政客们，如今却为其感到惋惜。

• 「you may have simply thought, ‘i feel sorry for them, ’ or ‘that sounds really tough, ’ but that is better than not thinking at all, 」 the teacher said.

  「也许你们只能在心里想我为他们感到难过或者他们的处境真艰难，但那总比什么都不想要好，」该老师说，你们应该在这次灾难中学会同情他人。

• i never thought anyone really judged me about all this until one day i heard someone in the local shop say: "i feel sorry for lucy「s children.

  我从没想到有人真的会为所有这一切而评价我，直到有一天，我在当地一家商店听到有人说：「我为露西的孩子感到难过。

• b: i do feel sorry for what i have done.

  我确实为自己所做的事感到惭愧。

• if somebody gets killed by a wild animal, we think it」s tragic.we feel sorry for that person.

  如果一个人被野兽所杀，我们觉得很悲惨，我们会为那个人觉得难过。

• do you want us to feel sorry for you, dear unemployed person?

  你要我们为你感到遗憾吗，亲爱的没工作的人？

• then i knew how much she suffered on my behalf. she had never let me see her tears, though, because she didn’t want me to feel sorry for myself.

  我这才知道她为我忍受着多大的痛苦，但是她从不让我看见她流泪，因为她不愿意我为自己感到难过。

• i feel sorry for myself.

  “我对自己感到抱歉」。

• 「i feel sorry for them, but they are just scapegoats, 」 said liu donglin, 28, who said his 21-month-old son had kidney stones after drinking tainted milk formula.

  「对他们我感到抱歉，但他们只是替罪羊。」28岁的刘东林说，他21个月大的孩子在喝了毒奶粉后身患肾结石。

• even the bull seemed to feel sorry for him.

  甚至连牛好像也在为他感到遗憾。

• the grader might feel sorry for you and give partial credit.

  年级长可能会对你感到遗憾，然后只给你部分的学分。

• i do feel sorry for them, but i「m glad it wasn」t me, that「s all i can say.

  我确实为他们感到遗憾，但我很庆幸那不是我，我只能这么说。

• the reader does feel sorry for his wife, though, when dead bees clog the light fittings and a coyote eats the favourite chickens.

  不过，当死去的蜜蜂堵塞了照明装置，郊狼吞吃掉心爱的小鸡的时候，读者确实会为他的妻子感到难过。

• we can still feel sorry for you, but since you don」t understand us, live as you do understand.

  我们仍然为你们感到难过，但是既然你们不能理解我们的生活方式，就照你们可以理解的那样过日子吧。

• an excursion along its shores costs quite a lot but don’t feel sorry for your money cause you’ll get an enormous pleasure of this trip, especially if it’s taken in winter.

  沿着它的海岸线游览将会花费你很大的一笔费用，但是不要犹豫。因为你将会觉得钱花的物有所值，特别是在冬天的时候。

• even the bull seemed to feel sorry for him, for it looked on sympathetically until the drunk was out of the way before once more turning its attention to the matador.

  好像连牛也在为他感到遗憾，因为它一直同情地看着醉汉，直到他的背影消逝，才重新将注意力转向斗牛士。

• she excels at depicting the neurotic uncertainties of people who know they are privileged but feel sorry for themselves anyway.

  她出色的描写了人们精神上的变化无常，这些人都以为自己很特殊，不过最后都还是对生活无可奈何。

• the fans were great and i feel sorry for them.

  球迷们都很棒，我对他们感到非常抱歉。

• yet it is hard to feel sorry for mr dudley, whose dealmaking with rosneft has jeopardised a well-functioning joint venture which paid regular dividends.

  但是，人们没有理由为达德利感到难过，因为达德利与俄石油签订的协议危及到一个运作良好的合资企业，而这家企业还得为此付出自己的定期分红。

• probably nobody after all, larry never even exists ? how can we feel sorry for larry?

  也许没有人,毕竟，larry从未存在过,我们怎么可能为larry感到遗憾？

• hasn「t it ever occurred to you that when you kill a fish, the other fish think it」s tragic, and feel sorry for the dead fish?

  你们有没有想过，当你们杀了一条鱼，其他的鱼也认为这很悲惨，同样也会为这条鱼感到难过吗？

• when you hear yourself say 「i am all alone, 」 it is your mind trying to sell you a lie so you will continue to feel sorry for yourself.

  当你听到自己在说「我很孤独」，那是你的思想再向你撒谎，你将因此继续对你自己感到抱歉。

• if not, end the friendship. don「t keep her around just because you feel sorry for her.

  如果答案是否定的，那么，就结束友谊，不要仅仅因为你为她感到遗憾就和她继续交往。

• running long and hard is an ideal antidepressant, since it」s hard to run and feel sorry for yourself at the same time.

  长并且艰苦的跑步是理想的抗抑郁病的药，因为同时跑步和为自己感到抱歉是很难的。

相似词

sympathize同情，怜悯；支持

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