ruefully的意思|ruefully的解释-里氏词典

ruefully

adv.
悲伤地, 可怜地

ruefully

[ adv ]
in a rueful manner
<adv.all>
`I made a big mistake,' he said ruefully

Rueful \Rue"ful\, a.
1. Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

2. Expressing sorrow. ``Rueful faces.'' --Dryden.

Two rueful figures, with long black cloaks. --Sir W.
Scott.
※ -- {Rue"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Rue"ful*ness}, n.

"You have all these deals where French farmers get on their tractors and ride into the town square," he says ruefully.
But politically it will not pass, even for those above a certain income level, in the absence of a clear understanding of the nation's need for such a measure." I cannot tell whether he is proposing such a measure or only talking ruefully about it.
'Unfortunately, we placed too much faith immediately after the suppression of the coup on the president and his team,' he writes ruefully.
'I was badly advised,' Piech later ruefully remarked. An example of very poor managerial judgment from a man who claims to be the only one qualified to save the embattled company.
She had literally died laughing, he observed ruefully.
"I didn't accomplish much," he says ruefully.
'You can see that livery was decided by a committee,' says Brian Fisher, managing director of Citybus, ruefully. Subsidised by the local authority but operated by Citybus, the park-and-ride fleet does indeed sport a livery chosen by the city council.
'It was not what we expected,' Bowlin says ruefully.
"When I was a boy, I liked giving them to my friends,' Semenenko said ruefully. "I sold some of them, too.
He had also borrowed money to buy his flat from the council, but would soon be unable to meet the repayments. When I gently explained that it was a familiar story for a westerner, he laughed ruefully.
Animated by tingling metal, punctuated by guitar and harp flourishes, and personalised by ruefully lyrical wind and horn, the scoring lacks the sustaining strength of strings.
"I always wanted a room with a skylight," Dolores Salazar said ruefully as she regarded the damage to her home.
Mr Parys says ruefully of his predecessors' decision to go ahead with the project. The centre is being built by Skanska, the Swedish building company, with the cost of the first phase set at Dollars 35.5m.
The shares closed the week at 87p, down another 15p - partly influenced, no doubt, by reports that Lords Hanson and White have given Lonrho the once-over and backed away shaking their heads ruefully. It is hard not to sympathise with Tiny Rowland.
Turning to Alexander Dubcek, whose 1968 Prague Spring attempts to create "socialism with a human face" were crushed by Soviet tanks, Mrs. Thatcher also referred ruefully to the West's lack of action then.
"I don't think they know how hot it is," she said. "We won't tell them that." The too-hot, too-dry growing season was a disappointment for some produce exhibitors, who ruefully displayed unusually small contenders.

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