rueful
rueful 英 [ˈru:fl] 美 [ˈrufəl]
adj. 可怜的；悲伤的；悔恨的
- If your elaborate magic trick goes awry, and instead of pulling a rabbit out of an audience member's shoe, you set the shoe on fire, you might give a rueful smile. Rueful means apologetic or remorseful.
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- adj. 可怜的；悲伤的；悔恨的
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1. “Gran Torino” (2008, Clint Eastwood): Few actors have taken themselves out with such a rueful bang.
l 《格兰·都灵》（2008年，克林特·伊斯特伍德）：极少数男演员如此悔恨地把自己从电影中排除出去。
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2. She’d once seen Lawrence hunched over some papers in their kitchen—he threw her a funny, rueful look—but she did not recall a season of Whoppers and strawberry shakes.
她在她家厨房里见过劳伦斯一次，他在那儿折纸。 他丢给她一个滑稽、可怜的表情。
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3. And then one day I left Columbia, and discovered the bitter truth about race relations, and for a while I was inclined to view the lessons I had been taught with a certain amount of rueful anger.
后来有一天，我离开了哥城，那时我已发现种族关系方面存在的苦涩事实。 有一段时期，我总是带着某种程度的悔恨回顾我以往获得的体验。
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