rueful

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rueful 是什么意思

中文释义

a. 悲伤的, 后悔的, 可怜的

英文释义

s feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

rueful 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 rueful 在自然语境里怎么用：

Kennedy, who was in her late fifties, had cropped hair and a rueful smile.

—— The Car-Crash Conspiracy

But if that irony is rueful, disenchanted, that does not mean it must be a stance of defeat.

—— “People in government today obviously don’t care about literature, so the effort to ridicule them in literature can seem pointless or (worse) harmless”

The irony I’m writing about is more rueful than hostile.

—— “People in government today obviously don’t care about literature, so the effort to ridicule them in literature can seem pointless or (worse) harmless”

Is it a hostile stance, or a rueful one?

—— “People in government today obviously don’t care about literature, so the effort to ridicule them in literature can seem pointless or (worse) harmless”

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