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 regrettable [ri'gretәbl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 可悲的, 可惜的, 抱歉的



    regrettable
    [ adj ]
    deserving regret
    <adj.all>
    regrettable remarksit's regrettable that she didn't go to college
    it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church


    1. Media commentators were virtually unanimous in saying the Cabinet reshuffle did not cure the "Recruit Scandal." "It is regrettable that we cannot feel any hope for a change," the Asahi Shimbun editorial said Wednesday.
    2. Some money managers think re-stigmatizing junk is regrettable.
    3. The problem of perspective is illustrated by Judge Thomas's effective, understandable, but regrettable claim during the hearing that he was the victim of a "high-tech lynching."
    4. Last night, he said his resignations were because a 'silly and regrettable' affair with a female colleague while on a professional trip to Brazil, had become public knowledge.
    5. "I find this difficult to understand how such a regrettable breach of security could have happened," Circuit Judge Lawrence Glazer said.
    6. The only regrettable omission seems to be that of the 'Viewer' facility.
    7. He said although the emigration of talented professionals was regrettable, "there can be absolutely no question of our impeding their departure in any way whatsoever.
    8. One of Jordaens' regrettable cupids prods at her melon breast with his arrow.
    9. The leader of the Democratic-controlled House also said that the issue warrants discussion in Congress, but that he accepted the administration's statements that the jetliner's downing in the Persian Gulf was a regrettable mistake.
    10. Following that regrettable event, Iraq ventured to amass large numbers of troops on the border of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
    11. A Fermenta spokesman called the expulsion "regrettable" but said it wasn't surprising.
    12. Walter Harrison, executive director of university relations, said the arrests were regrettable but unavoidable after the students rejected a request to leave the building and meet with university officials after Thanksgiving.
    13. Officials said the strike, the first worker challenge to Grosz's stringent eoconomic policies, was "regrettable" but understandable in view of economic hardships under a government austerity program.
    14. "What may be understandable but nevertheless regrettable is that campaigning so far resembles a `political Olympics' with a concentration on percentage points in pre-ballotting polls and in the results.
    15. Mr. Bowen told the Daily Princetonian "it is regrettable that our government is personified" by Mr. Bennett.
    16. Indeed, so sure were they of their own legitimacy that on Sunday they took the initiative in attempting to seize power by force. The bloodshed that resulted is highly regrettable.
    17. Egyptian Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid called the attack "very regrettable" and said he hoped it would not affect relations between the two countries.
    18. "We're about to start an annual ritual, which is regrettable," Darman said on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press." "Our budget will be criticized unfairly.
    19. The European Commission said the decision was 'regrettable' and that the disputed clause of its legislation made 'absolutely no distinction between EC and US suppliers'.
    20. "It is regrettable," Ms. Tutwiler said of the satellite restriction.
    21. However, Richard M. Rosenbaum, the national committeeman from New York, said, "I find what happened to be very embarrassing and regrettable."
    22. "It is very regrettable that Ambassador Mansfield is resigning," aides quoted Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno as saying. "He was a good friend who understands Japan quite well.
    23. If this be so, the veto is not wholly regrettable.
    24. "It is regrettable a misunderstanding arose," Takeshita wrote, adding that there is no justification for racial discrimination.
    25. As one said: 'The BBA described this as regrettable.
    26. "It is regrettable that without giving any evidence or criteria, (Amnesty International) defined some of those in prison as prisoners of conscience and demanded their release," the statement said.
    27. It will be regrettable if reputations, or jobs, are sacrificed, but the shock to Whitehall would be salutary.
    28. Even before the official announcement, the Israeli embassy called the decision regrettable and said it would not advance the cause of peace in the Middle East.
    29. This last one is less opaque, as it usually means there has been a mighty row. The reluctance to explain is regrettable.
    30. 'It was very regrettable that the accountancy profession has taken so long,' says Mr Orme, himself a former senior partner of Robson Rhodes, the accountancy firm.
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