That can be really, really hard at first. Apologizing isn’t easy because you’re not just admitting to a failure, you’re opening yourself up for the possibility that your apology will be turned down!

起初这真的是很难，道歉并不是那么容易的一件事，因为一旦你道歉了，就不仅仅是承认自己做错了那么简单，你还要做好准备，你的道歉很可能不被接受哦！

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In the first study, 33 men and 33 women completed online diaries for 12 days, describing instances in which they apologized to someone or did something that might have warranted an apology.

在第一份研究中，33名男士与33名女士分别在网上写了整整12在的日记，要求记录下他们向某人道歉以及可能需要道歉的事情的例子。

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In the first speech of the Apology, he defies the city to put him to death by expressing indifference to death and then in the Crito, he very much expresses that indifference to death by refusing to allow Crito to let him escape.

苏格拉底自辩篇》的第一场申辩中，他抗拒城邦处他死刑,理由是他根本漠视死亡,但之后在《克里托篇》,他表述漠视死亡的方式,变成拒绝让克里托助他逃亡。

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This is not the first time he has resorted to apology as the means of getting out of a scrape.

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