及物动词

名词

否定表达

1. 对…感到后悔;因…遗憾
If you regret something that you have done, you wish that you had not done it.

2. 悔恨;失望;后悔;惋惜
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.

3. 为…抱歉;很遗憾地说/通知你
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.

4. 抱歉；遗憾
If someone expresses regret about something, they say that they are sorry about it.

1. sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

e.g. he drank to drown his sorrows
he wrote a note expressing his regret
to his rue, the error cost him the game

Synonym: sorrowrueruefulness