| 单词 | to rue the day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rue the day (also hour) (b) transitive. With a specific period of time as object. Chiefly in to rue the day (also hour). ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (intransitive)] sorroweOE aruec1000 ruea1400 overthinka1450 regretc1450 to rue the day (also hour)c1461 fret1551 to cry over spilt milk (or water)1738 the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (intransitive)] > feel remorse ofthinkOE reusieOE overthinkc1175 (it) forthinks (me, him, etc.)a1300 forthinkc1380 ruea1400 remordc1450 to rue the day (also hour)c1461 repoin1523 remorse1530 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > be repentant or contrite [verb (intransitive)] > repent a course of or the occasion of action to rue one's resec1390 to rue a (also one's) racea1450 to rue the day (also hour)c1461 c1461 Piers in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 343 I may rewe the tyme þat I euer ded hym seruice. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. D6 That Tamburlaine shall rue the day..Wherein he wrought such ignominious wrong. 1599 George a Greene sig. A.3v All that sit vpon the bench this day, Shall rue the houre they haue withstood my Lords Commission. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 251 France, yu shalt rue this houre within this houre. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) v. vi. 43 Orphans, for their Parents timeles death, Shall rue the houre that euer thou was't borne. View more context for this quotation 1653 J. Allington Grand Conspiracy Jewes against their King iii. 154 You will rue the time, that ever you crucified your King. ?1710 Squire Bickerstaff Detected 2 I am alive..to make him rue the Hour he ever affronted a Man of Science and Resentment. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week iv. 5 I rue the day, a rueful day I trow,..When Lubberkin to Town his cattle drove. 1750 M. Jones Misc. in Prose & Verse 52 Now ponder well, Miss Clayton dear, And read your Bible book; Lest you one day should rue the time That you your promise broke. 1782 E. Blower George Bateman II. 170 Ye shall rue the day ye took it. 1801 W. H. Ireland Ballads in Imitation of Antient 11 God grant that so he keep his say She ne'er may rue the month of May. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor ii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 53 You'll rue the day that clogs me with this answer. 1881 ‘Rita’ My Lady Coquette I. ii. 26 It will go hard with me if I don't make you rue the day you wrote or said it! 1925 A. J. Whyte tr. C. B. Cavour Let. in Early Life & Lett. Cavour vii. 191 Love me, Camille,..love me that I may never rue the hour when first I saw you. 1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes 183 If I have to climb these stairs I'll warm your behind and you'll rue the day. 2009 J. Dylan Good Life with Jesse Dylan i. i. 12 His patients don't tend to recognize that they're mortal until they become sick, and then they rue the time they've lost. < as lemmas |
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