Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: (finire col) pentirsi

Salve,
        come potrei tradurre la frase: "mi sono ritrovato col pentirmi 
per non aver accettato la sua proposta..." oppure in generale: "pentirsi 
per aver/non aver + verbo"
I'd say: "I (eventually) wound up with regretting for not taking his 
proposal on"
che sarebbe simile ha: "I wish I'd taken on his proposal"
qualche aiuto?
grazie
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 qualche aiuto?
'I (eventually) wound up regretting not taking / regretting that I hadn't 
taken'
Mike 

 per aver/non aver + verbo"
Penso che gli inglesi comunemente direbbero:
"I lived to regret that I hadn't taken him up on what he said/asked"
In pratica "finire col pentirsi" penso sarebbe "to live to regret that.."
antonio
 
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 Mike 
Thanks, I was hoping you'd say that! I actually was trying to come up 
with anything like that. Now, I'd like to know how turning that phrase 
to future... is it correct to say: "I know, I'll wind up regretting not 
taking / regretting that I won't have taken..." ?? 
thanks
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  Now, I'd like to know how turning that phrase
Avrei detto "...how to turn...".
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Enrico C
"Spock, beam him up!"

 taken'
Se invece una mia scelta si è rivelata un errore e me ne sono pentito
amaramente, posso usare "to repent", o suona troppo letterario?
Per esempio, googlando, trovo ...
... such attention to a humble individual like yourself, so that you
become exceeding happy, and begin to repent not having come to Rome
ten years before. ..."
www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ammianus-history14.html
 
The History of Playing Cards in Europe
"To this the Saint replied, 'If you do not know what to paint, paint
this figure, and you will never have cause to repent having done so',
and showed the ..."
www.wopc.co.uk/history/earlyrefs.html
 
"Donald, in every vein of my soul I repent not having silenced them
both forever while they were yet in my power!" "Just so, colonel; the
dead never come back..." (E.D.E.N. Southworth, 1859) 
digital.library.upenn.edu/women/southworth/hand/hand-XXI.html
 
"On his departure, he repented having quitted him, and turning back,
he met with him at the top of St. James's Street; he then accosted him
again, saying, ..."
http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng374.htm
http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ngbibl.htm
"Bitterly she repented having got beside herself, and having tackled
the boy she had beaten. Yet it had to be so. She did not want to do
it. Yet she had to. ..." (D. H. Lawrence)
www.web-books.com/classics/Lawrence/Rainbow/Rainbow13_13.htm
 
"The main villain in that campaign likewise wound up repenting his
evil ways, sacrificing himself for the greater good. ..."
mortality.net/board/read.php?TID=9589
-- 
Enrico C
"Forever is composed of nows." (Emily Dickinson) 

 Avrei detto "...how to turn...".
anch'io
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 Mike
Question:  is "end up regretting" wrong?
Claudia. 

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No ; you could equally well say 'I ended up regretting' , or 'I finished up 
regretting'
Mike 

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'I know I'll wind up regretting not taking' is OK
'I know I'll wind up regretting not having taken' is another possibility
'I know I'll wind up regretting that I didn't take...' , however .
Mike 

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Yes , to me anyway it seems old-fashioned or rather literary to use 'repent'
except in those cases where it has the full sense of remorse for a moral
lapse or sinful action ; so in the last two cases above it would be the
natural and exact choice of word ; in the middle two you'd perhaps need a
bit more context to decide ; in the first two it sounds old-fashioned .
Mike

 lapse or sinful action
Repent ye! :)