One way to hold it: looking back at a door you went through and wishing you had taken the other one. The thing is done and cannot be undone, and what is left is a quiet about it. English also uses the same word as a polite way of saying "I am sorry" — the turned into a formula for bad news and for turning an invitation down.
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
regretverb/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/
- 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.
- I don't regret enrolling in law, but I regret not studying some Chinese.
- 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
archaicTo miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.
- He more than ever regretted his home, and with increased desire longed to see his family.
- This [the Cage] was but one of Cluny’s hiding-places; he had caves, besides, and underground chambers in several parts of his country; and following the reports of his scouts, he moved from one to another as the soldiers drew near or moved away. By this manner of living, and thanks to the affection of his clan, he had not only stayed all this time in safety, while so many others had fled or been taken and slain: but stayed four or five years longer, and only went to France at last by the express command of his master. There he soon died; and it is strange to reflect that he may have regretted his Cage upon Ben Alder.
regretnoun/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/
- 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.
- What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?
- Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
- 2
obsoleteDislike; aversion.
- Is it a vertue to have some ineffective regrets to damnation, and such a Vertue too, as shall serve to ballance all our vices?
- 3
The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.
- Under squared errorloss we show that there exists unique minimax regret solution for the problem of selecting the threshold.
- Each loss then represents this unavoidable loss plus a regret (loss due to ignorance of Ө). Subtracting these unavoidable losses, we obtain the regret table, Table 1.7, and the average regret table, Table 1.8.
- 4
One who was invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.
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