记忆方法
1、sorry 出自 sore（疼的、痛的）：本来是"身上疼"，后来专指心里难受，所以它除了道歉还表"遗憾"——I'm sorry to hear that 是"听到这事我难过"，不是认错。
2、拼写被 sorrow（悲伤、懊悔）带跑过，才从 sarig 变成 sorry；两者意思挨得近。
3、搭配记两个：sorry for + 人（同情谁）、sorry about + 事（对某事过意不去）。日常听到满街的 sorry，多半只是"借过、不好意思"。
2、拼写被 sorrow（悲伤、懊悔）带跑过，才从 sarig 变成 sorry；两者意思挨得近。
3、搭配记两个：sorry for + 人（同情谁）、sorry about + 事（对某事过意不去）。日常听到满街的 sorry，多半只是"借过、不好意思"。
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词族 · sorry
词形变化
中文词源
sorry 难过的，惋惜的
来自古英语 sarig,难过的，悲伤的，来自 sar,难过，悲伤，即 sore 的古英语拼写形式，-ig,古 英语形容词后缀。
英语词源
- sorry
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sorry: [OE] Sorry goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *sairig-, a derivative of *sairaz (source of English sore). The original base denoted physical as well as mental pain, but it is the latter semantic path that has been taken by sorry. Despite the similarity, incidentally, sorry has no etymological connection with sorrow [OE], which comes from a prehistoric Germanic base meaning ‘care’, and is related to modern German sorge ‘worry, sorrow’.
=> sore - sorry (adj.)
- Old English sarig "distressed, grieved, full of sorrow" (not found in the physical sense of "sore"), from Proto-Germanic *sairiga- "painful" (cognates: Old Saxon serag, Middle Dutch seerigh "sore; sad, sorry," Dutch zeerig "sore, full of sores," Old High German serag, Swedish sårig "sore, full of sores"), from *sairaz "pain" (physical and mental); related to *saira- "suffering, sick, ill" (see sore (adj.)). Meaning "wretched, worthless, poor" first recorded mid-13c. Spelling shift from -a- to -o- by influence of sorrow. Apologetic sense (short for I'm sorry) is attested from 1834; phrase sorry about that popularized 1960s by U.S. TV show "Get Smart." Related: Sorrily; sorriness.
权威例句
- 1. "I'm afraid he's ill." — "I'm sorry to hear that."
- “恐怕他生病了。”——“真是遗憾。”
- 2. "We're all talking at the same time." — "Yeah. Sorry."
- “我们俩在同时讲话。”——“噢，抱歉。”
- 3. This, I am sorry to say, is almost entirely wishful thinking.
- 我很遗憾，这几乎完全是一厢情愿的想法。
- 4. John, I'm sorry for Steve, but I think you've made the right decisions.
- 约翰，我为史蒂夫感到难过，但是我认为你的决定是正确的。
- 5. Turkin tapped him on the shoulder. "Sorry to interrupt, Colonel."
- 图尔金拍拍他的肩膀。“不好意思打断您一下，上校。”
词语辨析
【unhappy, miserable, wretched, sorry】
这组词都有“不幸的”的意思，其区别是：
unhappy: 侧重指精神上的不快或失望。
miserable: 指因贫穷、不幸或屈辱等外部因素给人造成精神痛苦、烦恼或肉体折磨，令人同情和可怜。
wretched: 多指由于疾病、担忧、忧伤等造成的不幸和痛苦，在外表上显得沮丧、可怜、失望，语气比miserable强。
sorry: 常作礼貌用词，表遗憾、婉惜。也指说话人表示同情、悲哀等，感情色彩较强。
这组词都有“不幸的”的意思，其区别是：
unhappy: 侧重指精神上的不快或失望。
miserable: 指因贫穷、不幸或屈辱等外部因素给人造成精神痛苦、烦恼或肉体折磨，令人同情和可怜。
wretched: 多指由于疾病、担忧、忧伤等造成的不幸和痛苦，在外表上显得沮丧、可怜、失望，语气比miserable强。
sorry: 常作礼貌用词，表遗憾、婉惜。也指说话人表示同情、悲哀等，感情色彩较强。