sorry
英['s?r?]
美['s?ri]
- adj. 遺憾的；對不起的，抱歉的
- int. 對不起，抱歉（表示委婉的拒絕等）
英英釋意
- 1. keenly sorry or regretful;
- "felt bad about letting the team down"
- "was sorry that she had treated him so badly"
- "felt bad about breaking the vase"
- 2. feeling or expressing sorrow or pity;
- "a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulders"
- "let him perish without a pitying thought of ours wasted upon him"- Thomas De Quincey
- 3. having regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone;
- "felt regretful over his vanished youth"
- "regretful over mistakes she had made"
- 4. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
- 5. bad; unfortunate;
- "my finances were in a deplorable state"
- "a lamentable decision"
- "her clothes were in sad shape"
- "a sorry state of affairs"
- 6. depressing in character or appearance;
- "drove through dingy streets"
- "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens
- "drab old buildings"
- "a dreary mining town"
- "gloomy tenements"
- "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
- 7. without merit;
- "a sorry horse"
- "a sorry excuse"
- "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"
- "the car was a no-good piece of junk"