He is by nature an optimistic man; his smile is rueful.(他天生就是个乐观的人,他的微笑让人心痛。)
His most rueful film is Now About These Women.(他最令人悲伤的电影是《这些女人们》。)
She’d once seen Lawrence hunched over some papers in their kitchen—he threw her a funny, rueful look—but she did not recall a season of Whoppers and strawberry shakes.(她在她家厨房里见过劳伦斯一次,他在那儿折纸。他丢给她一个滑稽、可怜的表情。)
In a more rueful letter written after they had agreed to separate, he calls her "My Lumps."(在他们同意分开后他写的许多忏悔信件中,他叫她“我的小傻瓜。”)
After 2000 that was a blessing. Orders poured in, and Saarland—though once a bit of a joke to Germans in the Reich, the locals' rueful name for the rest of the country—outpaced Germany's growth.(2000年后萨尔州鸿运当头,一批批订单奔涌而至,昔日德意志(当地人对国家其他地区的称呼,含无可奈何之意)人公认的国家笑柄萨尔州终于抬起了头,其经济增长超过全国整体水平。)
The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh.(那男孩的第一声惨叫是一声惨笑。)
Our marriage was a mistake, "she said, looking rueful."(“我们的婚姻是个错误,”她说着,看起来懊悔不已。)
He shook his head and gave me a rueful smile.(他摇了摇头,对我苦笑了一下。)
It is last seen by its rueful owner, who omitted to use a wrist strap, describing a perfect parabola on its way to the depths.(倒霉的失主忘了系上腕带,于是看着他的照相机在空中画了一条完美的抛物线后沉入水中。)