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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't say now that he isn't a crazy man,' said Sir Henry; 'I can't forget the look in his eyes when he ran at me this morning, but I must allow that no man could make a more handsome apology than he has done.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general, who had heard nothing of it before, began to listen with some interest, while Gania, drily, but with perfect candour, went through the whole history, including the fact of his apology to the prince.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The simple admirer of the war-horse instantly fell back to a low, gaunt, switch-tailed mare, that was unconsciously gleaning the faded herbage of the camp nigh by; where, leaning with one elbow on the blanket that concealed an apology for a saddle, he became a spectator of the departure, while a foal was quietly making its morning repast, on the opposite side of the same animal.
-- Duncan caught the letter from the ground, and without apology for the liberty he took, he read at a glance its cruel purport.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He spluttered out words of apology for any wrong he had committed towards her; he told her he loved her devotedly and begged her to return to him.
-- The caller was Mr. Van Busche Taylor, an American, and Mrs. Strickland gave me particulars with a charming smile of apology to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She received Nell's apology for being so late with perfect good humour, and said that she should not have roused her if she had slept on until noon.
-- Now, Nell had still the piece of gold sewn in her dress; and when she came to consider the lateness of the hour, and the somnolent habits of Mrs Jarley, and to imagine the state of consternation in which they would certainly throw that good lady by knocking her up in the middle of the night and when she reflected, on the other hand, that if they remained where they were, and rose early in the morning, they might get back before she awoke, and could plead the violence of the storm by which they had been overtaken, as a good apology for their absence she decided, after a great deal of hesitation, to remain.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this subject I have nothing more to say, no other apology to offer.
-- With amazement did she first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power; and steadfastly was she per-suaded, that he could have no explanation to give, which a just sense of shame would not conceal.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You had rather look out for misery for Marianne, and guilt for poor Willoughby, than an apology for the latter.
-- "We have heard Sir John admire it excessively," said Lucy, who seemed to think some apology necessary for the freedom of her sister.
-- I was repulsed indeed!I have passed a wretched night in endeavouring to excuse a conduct which can scarcely be called less than insulting; but though I have not yet been able to form any reasonable apology for your behaviour, I am perfectly ready to hear your justification of it.
-- He came with a pretence at an apology from their sister-in-law, for not coming too; "but she was so much engaged with her mother, that really she had no leisure for going any where."
-- He too was much distressed; and they sat down together in a most promising state of embarrassment. Whether he had asked her pardon for his intrusion on first coming into the room, he could not recollect; but determining to be on the safe side, he made his apology in form as soon as he could say any thing, after taking a chair.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was lassitude's apology to energy.
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