喜樂美語
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    Ruefully is how you do something when you feel that wish-I-hadn't feeling. You might smile ruefully, laugh ruefully, or admit ruefully that you were wrong. The adverb carries the same slightly , story-like flavour as . In speech, people often show this with their face and never use the word at all. Put it with a verb: it tells you the manner, not the person.

    懊悔地、帶著悔意

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組成rueful + -ly, the usual English way of turning an adjective into an adverb. Under that, rue + -ful + -ly.

同家族的字

  • ruethe older verb and noun at the root
  • ruefulthe adjective this adverb is built from

原始詞典資料1 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。

ruefullyadv

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    In a rueful manner; causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.

    • He smiled ruefully at me.
    • He pushed his straw hat back, scratched his head, and laughed ruefully.

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。