英语词汇“apology”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	apology
释义	apol·o·gy \əˈpäləjē\ noun (-es) Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French apologie, from Late Latin apologia, from Greek, from apo- + -logia (from logos speech) — more at legend 1. : something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others to be wrong or of what may be liable to disapprobation < an apology for a country's foreign policy > 2. : an attempt to justify or excuse < a convenient apology for their ruthlessness in Darwinian philosophy — J.D.Hicks > 3. : an acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act : an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him accompanied by an expression of regret < an apology to a hostess for being late > 4. : something that serves as an excuse for the absence of something : a poor specimen or substitute : makeshift < devising apologies for window curtains — Charles Dickens > Synonyms: apologia, excuse, plea, pretext, alibi: apology in today's English usually indicates either a frank regretful admission that one has been wrong or a defense involving mitigating or extenuating circumstances < an apology for the offense > < traffic congestion was their apology for being so late > Sometimes, like the word apologia, it is used without suggestions of guilt or error simply to indicate an explanation for a course or belief < Justin Martyr, a native of Samaria, who wrote one of the more famous of the apologies for Christianity, and who won his sobriquet by his death for the faith — K.S.Latourette > < the preface to Mirsky's book on Lenin contains his apologia for his shift of allegiance to the Soviet power — Edmund Wilson > excuse indicates an explanation offered to escape censure or blame < it matters not that some uncontrollable impulse, the product of mental disease, may have driven the defendant to the commission of the murderous act. The law knows nothing of such excuses — B.N.Cardozo > plea usually involves an appeal for understanding, sympathy, or clemency < old Hepzibah's scowl could no longer vindicate itself entirely on the plea of nearsightedness — Nathaniel Hawthorne > pretext suggests a subterfuge, an offer of an untrue reason or motive < he made my health a pretext for taking all the heavy chores, long after I was as well as he was — Willa Cather > < the hypocrisy that covers gainful exploitation by the pretext of a civilizing mission, concerned with the elevation of the native population — J.A.Hobson > alibi, legally a plea that one was elsewhere than at the place at which a crime was committed, may be applied to a mitigating or placating explanation < the alibis of many churches for their failure to provide qualified chaplains — Scott Hershey & Harry Tennant > < federal taxes are already being used as an alibi for cuts in local school budgets — H.M.Groves >
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