regret是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 遗憾， 懊悔， 抱歉，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a word, wedeparted to the regret and admiration of all concerned, and left agreat many people very sorry behind us.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt herself a most for-tunate woman; and she had lived long enough to know how fortunate she might well be thought, where the only regret was for a partial separation from friends whose friendship for her had never cooled, and who could ill bear to part with her.
-- It crossed my mind immediately that you would not regret your friend's leaving Highbury, for the sake of her being settled so well.
-- What!think a farmer, (and with all his sense and all his merit Mr. Martin is nothing more,) a good match for my intimate friend!Not regret her leaving Highbury for the sake of marrying a man whom I could never admit as an acquaintance of my own!I wonder you should think it possible for me to have such feelings.
-- said Mrs. John Knight-ley. 'It is so long since I have seen her, except now and then for a moment accidentally in town!What happiness it must be to her good old grandmother and excellent aunt, when she comes to visit them!I always regret excessively on dear Emma's account that she cannot be more at Highbury; but now their daughter is married, I suppose Colonel and Mrs. Campbell will not be able to part with her at all.
-- 'Perhaps you may now begin to regret that you spent one whole day, out of so few, in having your hair cut.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was food for great regret with him; it was also a contretemps which touched into life a latent heat he had experienced in that direction.
-- It was a night when sorrow may come to the brightest without causing any great sense of incongruity: when, with impressible persons, love becomes solicitousness, hope sinks to misgiving, and faith to hope: when the exercise of memory does not stir feelings of regret at opportunities for ambition that have been passed by, and anticipation does not prompt to enterprise.
-- Soon parting from Gabriel, the lonely and reserved man returned to his house to breakfast feeling twinges of shame and regret at having so far exposed his mood by those fevered questions to a stranger.
-- I do feel a little regret occasionally, but no woman ever had power over me for any length of time.
-- Bathsheba, fun is all very well, but don't go too far, or you may have cause to regret something."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them in-creased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.
-- Alas!I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit you all?
-- She forgot even her own regret in her endeavours to make us forget.
-- We left Oxford with regret and proceeded to Matlock, which was our next place of rest.
-- 'I could pass my life here,' said he to me; 'and 196 Frankensteinamong these mountains I should scarcely regret Switzer-land and the Rhine.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor did James and Andrew, who took him into their store in Savannah, regret his lack of education.
-- The thought of this strange boy whomshe hadn't really wanted to marry getting into bed with her, when her heart was breaking with an agony of regret at herhasty action and the anguish of losing Ashley forever, was too much to be borne.
-- She sent many messages of regret to himfrom behind her closed door and left the two frightened girls to preside over the supper table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I regret to state that I was not afraid of telling the enormous lie comprehended in the answer "No."
-- But I suppose there is a shock of regret which may exist without much tenderness.
-- "Oh!I can't do so, Mr. Pip," said Biddy, in a tone of regret but still of quiet conviction.
-- This left me no course but to regret that I had been "betrayed into a warmth which," and on the whole to repudiate, as untenable, the idea that I was to be found anywhere.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they can avoid casualties, they die only of old age, and are buried in the obscurest places that can be found, their friends and relations expressing neither joy nor grief at their departure; nor does the dying person discover the least regret that he is leaving the world, any more than if he were upon returning home from a visit to one of his neighbours.
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