词汇释义

contrite  TEM8  IELTS    GRE

UK  /kənˈtraɪt/ US  /ˈkɑːn.traɪt/

adj, If you are contrite, you are very sorry because you have done something wrong.深感懊悔的，痛悔的，悔悟的

外刊例句

1. Significantly, though, he finished the talk in almost contrite mode, declaring that "talent and people are at the centre of public service broadcasting.(The Guardian)

2. Berisha, who played alongside Jurman at Brisbane Roar, was contrite after the game.(The Guardian - Sport)

3. Akio Toyoda, Toyota's boss, also appeared before Congress, contrite and apologetic.(The Economist)

4. "I have been inconsiderate," the contrite former mayor of Seoul says.(The Economist)

5. But he admitted that he should have been informed of the new aeroplane's production problems. Compared with Mr Lagardère, who has no operational role at EADS, the man who actually runs the group was not at all contrite.(The Economist)

6. The scandal is affecting the reputation of other state Democrats, including the once untouchable and now rather contrite Mr Silver, who authorised the payment.(The Economist)

7. In an uncharacteristically contrite Twitter message, Mr Uribe apologised for having named him to the post.(The Economist)

8. Since the local government turned a budding local enterprise into China's biggest wholesale flower market in 1999, Dounan has become the main supplier of blooms to courting couples and contrite husbands across the country: demand fuelled by a middle-class boom. Yunnan has rapidly emerged as China's dominant flower-growing region.(The Economist)

9. In his appearance before MPs, Mr Diamond, though polite and contrite, was keen to distinguish between two sorts of misdeeds by his bank.(The Economist)

10. He has not sounded contrite or apologetic and he seems to have no opinion on anything.(The Economist)

11. The Swiss government is likely to argue that, once a figure is decided upon, upward revision should be ruled out. Some Swiss are less contrite.(The Economist)

12. But Russia will sound worse: bullying and mendacious. Vladimir Putin's remarks in Budapest on the anniversary of the 1956 Soviet invasion were a model of how to sound tactful and contrite without exactly apologising.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

contrite apology

词汇来源

"broken in spirit by a sense of guilt, conscience-stricken and resolved to not sin again," c. 1300, from Old French contrit (12c.) and directly from Latin contritus, literally "worn out, ground to pieces," in Late Latin "penitent," past participle of conterere "to grind," from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + terere "to rub" (from PIE root *tere- (1) "to rub, turn").Used in Church Latin in a figurative sense of "crushed in spirit by a sense of sin." Related: Contritely.

近义词

apologetic, compunctious, penitent, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, sorry

反义词

impenitent, remorseless, unapologetic, unrepentant

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