- 1悔恨；懊悔（比「後悔」重，帶自責）
Remorse is a strong, heavy feeling of being sorry — not for a small slip, but for something you believe was really wrong. It sits in the chest. You feel remorse after you have hurt someone, broken a trust, or done harm you cannot easily undo. People say full of remorse or without remorse. Without remorse is a dark phrase: the person is not sorry at all, and we use it for cold or cruel behaviour. Though actually, remorse is not the same as regret. Regret can be about a missed bus or a poor grade. Remorse is moral: you feel you have done something bad. The word is common in news, novels, and courtrooms; in daily talk people often say I feel so bad instead, but they mean this.
From the word’s history
From Middle English remors, from Old French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsus, from Latin remordeō 'to torment', literally 'to bite back'.
源自拉丁文 remordeō「折磨」，字面意思是「反咬回來」。
組成From Old French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsus, from Latin remordeō (“to torment,” literally “to bite back”), from re- + mordeō (“to bite”). The picture is guilt that bites you again.
同家族的字
- remorsefulfull of this feeling
- remorsefullyin a way that shows this feeling
- remorselesswithout this feeling; showing no pity
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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remorsenoun/ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)s/
- 1
A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
- In criminal proceedings, empirical studies have shown that remorse plays an important role in observers’ judgments of defendants.
- Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns . . . —all these were things of which I was afraid.
- 2
obsoleteSorrow; pity; compassion.
- This is the bloodiest shame, The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse.
remorseverb/ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)s/
- 1
To experience remorse or sorrow; to regret.
- And if we look abroad, to take a view of men as they are, we shall find that they remorse in one place, for doing or omitting that which others, in another place, think they merit by.
- When they have accepted their advice and have some upleasant experience then they remorse.
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