regretfully
regretfully
adverb
adverb
- in a regretful manner
懊悔的；遗憾的；惋惜的；抱歉的
■[sentence adverb]regrettably
令人遗憾地，可悲地
regretfully, mounting costs and diminishing traffic forced the line to close.
令人遗憾，成本增加和客流量减少使航线被迫关闭。
- The adjectives regretful and regrettable are distinct in meaning: regretful means ‘feeling or showing regret’, as in she shook her head with a regretful smilewhile regrettable means ‘giving rise to regret; undesirable’, as in the loss of jobs is regrettable The adverbs regretfully and regrettably have not, however, preserved the same distinction. Regretfully is used as a normal manner adverb to mean ‘in a regretful manner as in he sighed regretfullybut it is also used as a sentence adverb meaning ‘it is regrettable that as in regretfully, the trustees must turn down your requestIn this latter use it is synonymous with regrettably. Despite objections from traditionalists, this use is now well established (more than 30 per cent of citations in the British National Corpus for regretfully are in this disputed sense) and is included in most modern dictionaries without comment
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- nebular adj.星云的
- nebulated adj.朦胧的，有不明显斑纹的
- nebulium n.氰（一种假设的元素）
- nebulize vt.使成雾状，使成喷雾状
- nebulizer n.喷雾器
- nebulose adj.星云的,云雾状的,模糊的,朦胧的
- nebulosity n.星云状态，星云状物，朦胧
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