首页英语词典sorrysorry英英释意

sorry

英['sɒrɪ] 美['sɔri]
  • adj. 遗憾的;对不起的,抱歉的
  • int. 对不起,抱歉(表示委婉的拒绝等)

英英释意


1. keenly sorry or regretful;
"felt bad about letting the team down"
"was sorry that she had treated him so badly"
"felt bad about breaking the vase"
2. feeling or expressing sorrow or pity;
"a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulders"
"let him perish without a pitying thought of ours wasted upon him"- Thomas De Quincey
3. having regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone;
"felt regretful over his vanished youth"
"regretful over mistakes she had made"
4. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
5. bad; unfortunate;
"my finances were in a deplorable state"
"a lamentable decision"
"her clothes were in sad shape"
"a sorry state of affairs"
6. depressing in character or appearance;
"drove through dingy streets"
"the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens
"drab old buildings"
"a dreary mining town"
"gloomy tenements"
"sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
7. without merit;
"a sorry horse"
"a sorry excuse"
"a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"
"the car was a no-good piece of junk"