The best thing to do would be to apologize.

最恰当的做法应该是道歉。

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The best thing to do is to apologize.

道歉方是上策。

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I want to apologize for not coming to your birthday party. The reason that I didn't show up was because I had to do some work for my teacher.

我想为没来参加你的生日聚会而道歉。我没能到场的原因是我必须帮我的老师做一些事情。

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James Press, who now runs all of Toyota's U.S. sales operations, visited Lexus dealers to apologize and to ask what Lexus could do to redeem itself.

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So when Apple puts out a mediocre mapping app, that disappoints me and everyone else, then Tim Cook has to get down on bended knee and apologize to me, and promise never ever to do that again.

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All Clinton had to do was acknowledge his misbehavior, apologize to his client and set the record straight that there had been no sexual relations between the two of them.

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