an apology for somethingBAD ATa very bad example of something 权充某物的东西；勉强代用的东西 They served us up an apology for a meal. 他们端给我们的饭菜真不像样。
an apology for something• You owe him an apology for misjudging him and suspecting his motives at every turn.• Thornton included an apology for Blake's designs.• A taxi brought us to a boarding house she knew, and we're shown into an apology for a bedroom.• Yet again, it is an apology for failure.• Rawls's work is an apology for the weak, atomistic and relativistic culture which we see all around us.• Then he gave a little nod, an apology for interrupting, and leaned the bike against the back porch.• Proponents of such a view owe us an apology for three avoidable Tory victories.• Dear Maggie, I feel I owe you an apology for abandoning your esteemed Victorian values.
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