“你看，”他继续抱歉地说，“做他们的亲生父亲，会让我显得那么老。”

"You see," he continued apologetically, "it would make me seem so old to be their real father."

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但是说抱歉会令他们感到有点泄气。

But saying sorry makes them feel a bit pathetic.

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按照这种看法，女性擅长人际关系的培养，而男性则因过于以自我为中心而不愿说抱歉，或者他们对社会礼节有着不同的想法。

Women are good at nurturing relationships, the thinking goes, while men are too egotistical to say they're sorry or have a different take on social graces.

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And they said, "Well, I'm sorry you feel that way, it's incorrect, and you have to take it anyway."

但他们说：“很抱歉你那么像，这是不对滴，你一定要学它“

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And then eventually they were just like, "I'm sorry, we can't give you a job."

最后，他们只是说：“很抱歉，我们不能给你工作。”

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