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Remorseful means full of that strong sorry: you feel, and often show, that you have done something very bad. A remorseful person may apologise, go quiet, or try to put things right. It is simply remorse + -ful. Courts and news reports like it: a remorseful defendant. Though actually, looking remorseful and being remorseful are not always the same — a sorry face can be a show. Still, in ordinary use we take it as a real feeling. The opposite idea is remorseless: no pity, no sorry. You are remorseful about something, or remorseful for what you did.
悔恨的;深感懊悔的
組成From remorse + -ful (full of).
同家族的字
- remorsethe noun for the feeling
- remorsefullythe adverb: in that sorry way
- remorselessthe opposite: without remorse
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
remorsefuladj/ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)sfʊl/
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Feeling or filled with remorse.
- He was so remorseful that he voluntarily paid full restitution.
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Expressing or caused by remorse.
- There was a remorseful look on her face.
- Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。