Three Phrases for Expressing Regret
三种表达后悔的短语
Expressing regret means having a feeling of sadness about something that you did or did not do.
表达遗憾意味着对你做过或没做过的事情感到悲伤。
To express regret in English, you may use many different structures. Here are three of them.
在英语中表达遗憾，你可以使用许多不同的结构。以下是其中的三个。
I regret...我很遗憾..
The first phrase is "I regret."
第一句话是“我后悔。
When we use this phrase, we usually follow it with some form of noun, such as a gerund, noun phrase or noun clause.
当我们使用这个短语时，我们通常会在它后面加上某种形式的名词，比如动名词、名词短语或名词从句。
It is quite common for English speakers to follow the phrase “I regret" with a gerund.
对于说英语的人来说，在短语“Iregret”后面加动名词是很常见的。
You may remember that gerunds are nouns ending in -ing. For example:
你可能记得动名词是以-ing结尾的名词。例如:
·I regret coming here. I want to go home now.
·我后悔来这里。我现在想回家。
Sometimes we follow the phrase “I regret” with a noun phrase.
有时我们在“I regret”后面加一个名词短语。For example: 例如
·I regret that purchase. It was a huge waste of money.
·我后悔购买那件东西。这是对金钱的巨大浪费。
Other times, we follow the words “I regret' with a noun clause.
其他时候，我们在“I regret”后面加一个名词从句。
You may remember that a clause is a part of a sentence with its own subject and verb. Noun clauses act as nouns. For example:
你可能还记得，从句是句子的一部分，有自己的主语和动词。名词从句充当名词。例如:
·I regret what I said yesterday. It was not fair. I'm sorry.
我对昨天说的话感到后悔。这是不公平的。我很抱歉。
Wish希望
Next up is the phrase “I wish.”
下一个是短语“I wish”。
This phrase has a few uses in English.
这个短语在英语中有几种用法。
When used to express regret, we are saying we feel sorry that something was not different in the past. For example:
当我们用来表达遗憾时，我们是在说我们对在过去并没有什么不同的事情感到遗憾。例如:
.I wish I had studied harder for the entrance exam.
我要是当初为了入学考试更努力学习就好了。
Did you note the verb tense? It was past perfect and the verb was “had studied.”
你注意到动词时态了吗?它是过去完成时，动词是“had studied”。
When we use “I wish”to express regret, the usual verb tense is the past perfect.
当我们用“Iwish”来表达遗憾时，通常的动词时态是过去完成时。
However, in spoken English, Americans sometimes use the simple past tense instead, like this:
然而，在英语口语中，美国人有时会使用一般过去时，就像这样:
·I wish I studied harder for the entrance exam.
·我希望我为了入学考试更加努力学习。
I should / shouldn't have...
我应该/不应该......
Our final phrase for today is “I should have.”
我们今天的最后一个短语是“I should have”
When someone uses this phrase, it means something did not happen but we wish it had happened.
当有人用这个短语时，意思是某事没有发生，但我们希望它发生了。
For example, I said, “I should have tested the color first.”
例如，我说:“我应该先测试颜色。”
You may remember that the verb “should” is a modal verb.
你可能还记得动词should是情态动词。
The word “have” in the phrase is part of the present perfect verb tense. For example:
短语中的“have”是动词现在完成时的一部分。例如:
·I was late for work today. I should have woken up earlier.
我今天上班迟到了。我本应该早点醒的。
Here the speaker used the present perfect verb “have woken up.”
这里说话者使用了现在完成时动词“have woken up”。
We can also use the negative form -- “I should not have" -- to express the same general ideas, like this:
我们也可以用否定形式-"I should not have"-- 表达同样的大意，像这样:
·I was late for work today. I should not have slept so late.
·我今天上班迟到了。我不应该睡得这么晚，
以上内容来源六分钟英语
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