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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I am even not sorry—"But no one ever knew what he was not sorry about, for the poor man was obliged to swallow down the rest of his sentence with half a pint of muddy water.
-- No, not that; there are no wild beasts here, I am sorry to say."
-- exclaimed Glenarvan, "you are sorry there are no wild beasts?"
-- "It is yours, Paganel," replied the Major, "and I am very sorry for it; but your memory might gain an armory by such feats."
-- If any unexpected event should oblige us to go to Melbourne, we might be sorry not to find the DUNCAN there.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I should be sorry to begin my life here by breaking an old family connection.'
-- I wanted to say to you how sorry I am about the stupid mistake I made in think-ing that you were Sir Henry.
-- I am sorry to intrude, but you heard how earnestly Holmes insisted that I should not leave you, and especially that you should not go alone upon the moor.'
-- He was very sorry for all that had passed, and he recognized how foolish and how selfish it was that he should imagine that he could hold a beautiful woman like his sister to himself for her whole life.
-- 'I am sorry that he has seen you.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They listened very attentively and soon began to be sorry for Marie.
-- I think they began to be a little sorry for her in the village at last; at all events they did not interfere with the children any more, on her account.
-- 'I am telling you the truth,' said the prince in his former composed tone of voice; 'and believe me, I am extremely sorry that the circumstance should have made such an un-pleasant impression upon you!'
-- Ptitsin laughed too, though he had been very sorry to see the general appear.
-- No doubt he is sorry now.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I love you dearly, and should be very sorry to see you get a thrashing; however grieved I might be, I could not help, for there is no standing against Jove.
-- It will be a sorry tale hereafter that an Achaean host, at once so great and valiant, battled in vain against men fewer in number than themselves; but as yet the end is not in sight.
-- The people were sorry for him, yet they laughed heartily, and one would turn to his neighbour say-ing, 'Ulysses has done many a good thing ere now in fight and council, but he never did the Argives a better turn than when he stopped this fellow's mouth from prating further.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was sorry to hear Jim say that, it was such a lowering of him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away from home!They will never be happy in this world, and when they are older they will be very sorry for it."
-- "Poor Pinocchio, I am sorry for you."
-- Geppetto, who had understood nothing of all that jumbled talk, except that the Marionette was hungry, felt sorry for him, and pulling three pears out of his pocket, offered them to him, saying: "These three pears were for my breakfast, but I give them to you gladly.
-- he felt sorry for him and began first to waver and then to weaken.
-- At that sneeze, Harlequin, who until then had been as sad as a weeping willow, smiled happily and leaning toward the Marionette, whispered to him: "Good news, brother mine!Fire Eater has sneezed and this is a sign that he feels sorry for you.
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