sorry是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 对不起， 抱歉的； 难过， 悔恨的； 使人伤心，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Than I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie."
-- No one seemed surprised to see him, or interested in seeing him, or glad to see him, or sorry to see him, or spoke a word, except that somebody in the boat growled as if to dogs, "Give way, you!"
-- "No, ma'am, I am very sorry for you, and very sorry I can't play just now.
-- "(I'm sorry there weren't a flag, Pip).
-- He got heavily bruised, for I am sorry to record that the more I hit him, the harder I hit him; but he came up again and again and again, until at last he got a bad fall with the back of his head against the wall.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The carter seeing that he had thus lost all that he had, went down into his kitchen; and was still not sorry for what he had done, but sat himself angrily and sulkily in the chimney corner.
-- So the fisherman was forced to go; and he muttered as he went along, 'This will come to no good, it is too much to ask; the fish will be tired at last, and then we shall be sorry for what we have done.'
-- The king was sorry that for the sake of one he should lose all his faith-ful servants, wished that he had never set eyes on the tailor, and would willingly have been rid of him again.
-- 'But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the same,' said the man.
-- This new wife had two daughters of her own, that she brought home with her; they were fair in face but foul at heart, and it was now a sorry time for the poor little girl.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am as heartily sorry as any of my readers can possibly be, that such an occasion was given: but this prince happened to be so curious and inquisitive upon every particular, that it could not consist either with gratitude or good manners, to refuse giving him what satisfaction I was able.
-- He then grew serious, and desired to ask me freely, 'whether I were not troubled in my mind by the consciousness of some enormous crime, for which I was punished, at the command of some prince, by exposing me in that chest; as great criminals, in other countries, have been forced to sea in a leaky vessel, without provisions: for although he should be sorry to have taken so ill a man into his ship, yet he would engage his word to set me safe ashore, in the first port where we arrived.'
-- I made the captain a very low bow, and then, turning to the Dutchman, said, 'I was sorry to find more mercy in a heathen, than in a brother christian.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am sorry to hear it.
-- I am very sorry indeed to hear it.
-- Though I do know better, Tom, and am very sorry for it.'
-- They looked at Stephen's worn face, rendered more pathetic by the homely emotions it evinced; and, in the kindness of their nature, they were more sorry than indignant.
-- Don't make yourself a spectacle of unfairness as well as inconsistency, because, although I am sorry to see Tom Gradgrind reduced to his present position, I should be doubly sorry to see him brought so low as that.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarcely were the words out of my mouth, when I was sorry I had uttered them.
-- M. Fridriksson was not present, and I was afterwards sorry to hear that he and the governor did not agree on some matters connected with the administration of the island.
-- Accustomed as I had been to the steam ferry boats of the Elbe, I found the long oars of the boatmen but sorry means of locomotion.
-- After we had passed an hour or more in silent contemplation of the wondrous spectacle, we rose and went down towards the bank on our way to the grotto, which I was not sorry to gain.
-- I shall not be sorry to exchange the narrow limits of our raft for the mysterious strand of the subterranean ocean."
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：
-- 'I'm sorry we can't have a son,' she said.
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