I lay back and puffed a cigarette, gazing ruefully at my pants the while; they were terribly wrinkled.

我又躺下来抽起一根香烟，同时后悔地凝视着我的裤子，它皱成了一团。

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When he returned home from a long day at the office, Jeremy Brosowsky would glance ruefully at his coffee table.

熬过漫长的一天，当Jeremy Brosowsky离开办公室准备返回家中的时候，他会悲戚地看一眼自己的咖啡桌。

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“Nobody listened, then everybody did,” Norman wrote ruefully in a 1991 article called “A future history of privatisation, 1992-2022”.

1991年，诺曼在一篇名为《私有化未来史：1992-2022》的文章中充满惆怅地写到“当时没有人听得进去，可后来人人都认同”。

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Every now and then there was, he sang ruefully, a little lesson "yn Welsh chware teg".

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