apology是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 道歉， 认错， 辩解， 辩护，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Perhaps not,' said Mr. Wickfield, 'and you bring me back to thequestion with an apology for digressing.
-- Butappearing to remark that Mr. Wickfield went on with his dinner inthe same sedate, immoveable manner, and that there was no hopeof making him relax a muscle of his face, he added'However, Ihave said what I came back to say, and, with another apology forthis intrusion, I may take myself off.
-- 'I thank you, sir, if you please';and with that, and with a little inclination of his head when hepassed the bedside, as an apology for correcting me, he went out,shutting the door as delicately as if I had just fallen into a sweetsleep on which my life depended.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No suspicious flourishes now of apology or concern; it was the language of real feeling towards Mrs. Weston; and the transition from Highbury to Enscombe, the contrast between the places in some of the first blessings of social life was just enough touched on to shew how keenly it was felt, and how much more might have been said but for the restraints of propriety. The charm of her own name was not wanting.
-- Upon her speaking her wonder aloud on that part of the subject, before the few who knew her opinion of Mrs. Elton, Mrs. Weston ventured this apology for Jane.
-- And no apology left, no message for me.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The worst features of this arrangement were that, if he thought she ridiculed him, an apology would increase the offence by being disbelieved; and if he thought she wanted him to woo her, it would read like additional evidence of her forwardness.
-- Boldwood compressed his emotion to mere welcome: the men marked her light laugh and apology as she met him: he took her into the house; and the door closed again.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ashley, you have not favored us with your opinion," said Jim Tarleton, turning from the group of shouting men,and with an apology Ashley excused himself and rose.
-- She smiled at Scarlett, whimsically,as the music ended, making a little moue of apology as she dabbed with her handkerchief.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm a heavy grubber, dear boy," he said, as a polite kind of apology when he made an end of his meal, "but I always was.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Bounderby,' said Mr. Gradgrind, drawing a chair to the fireside, 'you are always so interested in my young people particularly in Louisa that I make no apology for saying to you, I am very much vexed by this discovery.
-- Mr. Bounderby silently gazed about him for some moments, in every direction except Mrs. Sparsit's direction; and then, abruptly turning upon the niece of Lady Scadgers, said to that wretched woman:'Now, ma'am!We shall be happy to hear any little apology you may think proper to offer, for going about the country at express pace, with no other luggage than a Cock-and-a-Bull, ma'am!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The word was an apology now, and stood for 'Oh, by no means!'
-- I was wholly unprepared for your announcement, and hope that assurance is my sufficient apology for having taken the liberty of addressing you.
-- 'Amy, my dear, if you can persuade Mr Clennam to stay longer, I can leave the honours of our poor apology for an establishment with confidence in your hands, and perhaps you may do something towards erasing from Mr Clennam's mind the ha untoward and unpleasant circumstance which has occurred since tea-time.'
-- I appear to have been ha so little expected, that upon my word I began ha hum to think it might be right to offer an apology for ha taking the liberty of coming back at all.'
-- Except that it was long since the mother and son had spoken together without the intervention of a third person, it was an ordinary matter of course within the experience of visitors for Mrs Clennam to be asked, with a word of apology for the interruption, if she could be spoken with on a matter of business, and, on her replying in the affirmative, to be wheeled into the position described.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A formal apology will make him see how foolish he is, and bring him down quite amiable.
-- Jo dropped a kiss on the top of Mr. Laurence's bald head, and ran up to slip the apology under Laurie's door, advising him through the keyhole to be submissive, decorous, and a few other agreeable impossibilities.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Charley when he recovered, as an apology to the company for his unpolite behaviour.
-- These frank admissions softened Mr. Giles, who at once owned that he was afraid; upon which, they all three faced about, and ran back again with the completest unanimity, until Mr. Giles (who had the shortest wind of the party, as was encumbered with a pitchfork) most handsomely insisted on stopping, to make an apology for his hastiness of speech.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She longed to speak, but could think of nothing to say; and after a short silence Mrs. Bennet be-gan repeating her thanks to Mr. Bingley for his kindness to Jane, with an apology for troubling him also with Lizzy.
-- The chief of every day was spent by him at Lucas Lodge, and he sometimes returned to Longbourn only in time to make an apology for his absence before the family went to bed.
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