His speech was in the nature of an apology.

他的话也就是道歉。

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I think we're owed an apology.

我认为得有人向我们道歉。

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She mumbled an apology and left.

她嘟嘟囔囔地道了歉就走了。

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One was a high-level visit. The other was an apology for the illegal entry.

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Philip Morris was pilloried in the press and they issued an apology for this heartless calculation.

菲利普·莫里斯公司遭到媒体谴责,他们为这项冷血的计算公开道歉。

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Now turning to your sheet, in the early, early modern period the poet and courtier, Sir Philip Sidney, wrote an elegant, really wonderfully written defense of poetry, in one edition called The Apology for Poesie.

现在回到发给你们的材料上来，英国，伊丽莎白时期的朝臣及诗人，西德尼，曾写过很多很多，优美的诗歌，全部收录在一本名为《诗辩》的集子里。

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It was an inappropriate remark, and I am glad an apology has been made.

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It said the people concerned had received an apology and full investigations had been carried out.

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John Jenkins, to offer an apology that was accepted, Brown said Thursday in an email.

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