ruefully / ˈru fə li /
📖毕业后词汇哀叹地遗憾地遗憾的是哀叹地说道
ruefully 的定义
adv. 副词 adverb- in a mournful or doleful way:I found myself sitting ruefully by the side of the road, near a little town in North Carolina, waiting for a tow truck.
- in a way that suggests repentance or regret:He is aware of his own flaws, at times ruefully so.
更多ruefully例句
- Perhaps that name should not be felt so ruefully today, despite the reversion to authoritarian control in Egypt.
- And yet, Norton says ruefully, “You know the old expression: ‘Wherever I went, there I was.’ ”
- Somewhere, a no-longer-in-the-league Tebow is ruefully nodding.
- At the climax of the play, Willy Loman ruefully tells his two sons that he was fired that day from his job.
- She owes money to a lot of people, she says smiling ruefully.
- Ruefully Aristide found no answers save in the general chuckle-headedness of mankind.
- Ruefully Aristide asked himself the question: why had the Mayor not taken him into the confidence of his masquerading escapade?
- Aristide looking at the remainder rather ruefully made a great resolution.
- Dane glanced at Winston somewhat ruefully, but the latter's eyes were fixed on Colonel Barrington.
- Somebody had scuffed his right shoe in getting out and now he pulled up the pant leg of his dark grey suit to study it ruefully.