rue

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Sorrow; repentance; regret. archaic,dialectal,uncountable
    — When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, / "The heart out of the bosom was never given in vain; / 'Tis paid with sighs aplenty and sold for endless rue." / And I am two-and-twenty, and oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
  2. Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines. countable,uncountable
    — But th'aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Savine, and the flowre / Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill [...].
  3. Pity; compassion. archaic,dialectal,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. transitive
    — to rue the day
  2. To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. obsolete,transitive
  3. To cause to feel sorrow or pity. obsolete,transitive
  4. To feel compassion or pity; to take pity (on), to have compassion (on). archaic,intransitive,obsolete
    — […] till our Lord's clouds rue upon the earth, and send down a watring of rain: Truly , I think Christ's misty dew a welcome message from heaven, till my Lord's rain fall : […]
  5. To feel sorrow or regret. archaic,intransitive
    — Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.

词形变化

rewe alternative,obsolete rues present,singular,third-person ruing participle,present rueing participle,present rued participle,past rued past rewe alternative,obsolete rues plural rewe alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
desert rue rue-bargain rueful ruefully ruefulness rue-leaved saxifrage rueless ruesome ruly ruth unrueing

词源

词源 1
From Middle English rewe, reowe, from Old English hrēow (“sorrow, regret, penitence, repentance, penance”), from Proto-West Germanic *hreuwu (“pain, sadness, regret, repentance”). Cognates include German reuen (“to regret, to repent”) and Dutch rouwen (“to mourn, to grieve”).
Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krows-. If so, note the same sense evolution with in this case cognate Russian круши́ть (krušítʹ, “to destroy, to shatter”), Russian сокруша́ться (sokrušátʹsja, “to be distressed, to grieve (for, over)”). Also compare Czech truchlit from Proto-Slavic *truxlъ.
词源 2
From Middle English rewen, ruwen, ruen, reowen, from Old English hrēowan (“to rue; make sorry; grieve”), perhaps influenced by Old Norse hryggja (“to distress, grieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną (“to sadden; repent”).
词源 3
From Middle English rue, from Anglo-Norman ruwe, Old French rue, from Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).
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