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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I declare you're enough to make one regret ever having had a family at all.
-- The moment she could detach herself from that interview with the person of whom you speak, and whom I deeply regret to have been the means of introducing to you, Louisa hurried here, for protection.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I at once regret the old and now forever exploded theory of a central fire.
-- This was the only word of reproach which came to my lips; for I thoroughly understood how deeply and sorrowfully the worthy Professor would regret my loss, and how in his turn he would patiently seek for me.
-- My dear boy, I had begun to give over all hope--and you can never know what bitter tears of sorrow and regret I have shed.
-- "In any case, we can never regret having come thus far.
-- That same day he deposited in the archives of the town the document he had found written by Saknussemm, and he expressed his great regret that circumstances, stronger than his will, did not allow him to follow the Icelandic traveler's track into the very centre of the earth.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I never regret it.'
-- 'You'll regret it,' she said, 'I shan't,' cried Connie, flushed red.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I can only assure you, Mr Pancks,' said Young John, 'that I deeply regret my circumstances being such that I can't afford to pay my own charges, or that it's not advisable to allow me the time necessary for my doing the distances on foot; because nothing would give me greater satisfaction than to walk myself off my legs without fee or reward.'
-- 'I quite regret you were not with us yesterday,' said Mr Henry Gowan, calling on Clennam the next morning.
-- That he trusted (by this time he had secured the eyes of the Chief, and addressed him) he might be permitted to express his hope that she was now none the worse, and that she would not regret having made the journey.
-- I regret it.
-- Not that her sister noticed it; for she was divided between regret at the coming separation, and a lingering wish that she had been included in the plans for visiting England.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Remember it, and try with heart and soul to master this quick temper, before it brings you greater sorrow and regret than you have known today.'
-- 'How beautifully you do it!I wish I could draw,' said Meg, with mingled admiration and regret in her voice.
-- He missed her, however, and she came walking in with a very queer expression of counte-nance, for there was a mixture of fun and fear, satisfaction and regret in it, which puzzled the family as much as did the roll of bills she laid before her mother, saying with a little choke in her voice, 'That's my contribution toward making Father comfortable and bringing him home!'
-- But, my dear, it was not necessary, and I'm afraid you will regret it one of these days,' said Mrs. March.
-- And I herewith also leave her my regret that I ever made fun of old Joanna.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Young as he was, however, he had sense enough to make a feint of feeling great regret at going away.
-- The regret of no recent separation was fresh in his mind; the absence of no loved and well-remembered face sank heavily into his heart.
-- 'Then I think it is necessary,' said the doctor; 'at all events, I am quite sure that you would deeply regret not having done so, if you postponed it.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He joined them on their entering the town, and attended them to their aunt's where his regret and vexation, and the concern of everybody, was well talked over.
-- The next was in these words: 'I do not pretend to regret anything I shall leave in Hertfordshire, except your society, my dear-est friend; but we will hope, at some future period, to enjoy many returns of that delightful intercourse we have known, and in the meanwhile may lessen the pain of separation by a very frequent and most unreserved correspondence.
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