Sometimes I felt really sorry for him being ignored by me so I would send some lame apologetic message with an excuse of why I can't answer his calls/emails/messages.

有时我真的因为一直忽视他感觉很抱歉，所以我会发一些有歉意的信息并解释为什么我不能回他的电话/邮件/信息。

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His tone was tenderly apologetic at the end. He felt terrible that he would have to leave us.

在最后，他的语调带有温柔的歉意，要离开我们让他感觉很糟糕。

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For the record, later on Friday 1800Flowers reached out to me with a string of emails and an apologetic phone call from a guy who felt my pain more acutely than Bill Clinton.

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"It is a little bit my fault, " said an apologetic Bolt, who said he had not felt 100%.

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