Apologetic

(adj.) offering or expressing apology; 'an apologetic note'; 'an apologetic manner' .

整理:米歇尔

• Or even if I any ways should want a wink or two,' added Sloppy, after a moment's apologetic reflection, 'I could take 'em turning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He lifted his eyes, when he saw his master, with a half-deprecating, apologetic air. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Not, adds Mr. Snagsby with his apologetic cough, that I mean to say a word against the profession I get my living by. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The meeting was said to have been embarrassing to both, and the conversation was principally apologetic. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• So challenged, many of the monarchs became apologetic and fussily useful. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Hitherto there had always been something apologetic about the army man in England. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mr. Snagsby, with much bowing and short apologetic coughing, takes his leave, lightened in heart. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Lizzie merely answered this difficult question with an apologetic glance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The old man, with an apologetic action of his head and hands, as not comprehending the master's meaning, addressed to him a look of mute inquiry. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When Barnwell began to go wrong, I declare that I felt positively apologetic, Pumblechook's indignant stare so taxed me with it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I feel sincerely apologetic, my dear Mortimer, but nothing comes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I felt quite apologetic for Traddles. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In fact, Franklin was rather apologetic in reference to the magic squares and circles, with which he sometimes amused hi s leisure, as a sort of ingenious trifling. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Being a great reader of all kinds of literature (and never at all apologetic for that weakness), he sat down comfortably to read. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

整理:罗拉