每日一句 之 kick oneself

He kicked himself for missing so many chances.
他气自己错过了那么多机会。

kick是踢的意思，kick oneself，踢自己，实际上就可以引申为自责，懊恼的意思。

chances，chance是改变，chances是机会。

例句:
I'm sorry.I should have kicked myself for lying to you.
对不起，我也怪自己对你说谎。

Jerry sold the car to someone else yesterday. I'm still kicking myself for not buying it when i had the chance.
昨天杰瑞把车卖给了别人，我还在后悔有机会买那辆车的时候却没有买。

We can cantrol what we do. If we don't do that,20 years from now we'll still be kicking ourselves in the seat of the pants for turning away from an enormous opportunity to give our children a safer world.
我们能控制我们的作为。如果我们现在不这样做，那么20年以后，我们会因为失去了给我们的孩子提供一个更为安全的世界的巨大机会而后悔莫及。（美国前总统克林顿的演讲）

转载于:https://www.cnblogs.com/coderlee/archive/2008/01/17/1042464.html