內容簡介
英國人是出了名的愛道歉。「道歉」 用英語怎麼說？在口語會話中，除了可以說 「I’m sorry.」 以外，還有哪些語句可以用來表示自己因犯錯而感到抱歉？看視頻，學習用不同的方式說 「對不起」。
文字稿
Hi, I’m Sam from BBC Learning English. People in the UK have a reputation for saying sorry a lot, so let’s have a look at different ways you can use to do this.
So:
– You can say sorry
– You can be sorry
– And you can apologise
In each case, we use the preposition ‘to’ with a person and ‘for’ to give the reason we’re apologising:
I said sorry to my friend for forgetting her birthday.
After ‘for’ you can use a gerund or a noun.
But if you want a simple statement to say I was wrong, you can use any of these:
My bad.
My mistake.
My apologies.
It’s all my fault.
Please forgive me.
I take full responsibility.
It won’t happen again.
Careful who you say these to – my bad! is very informal and you would probably only say it after making a small mistake. It won’t happen again is probably better in more serious situations.
用法總結
1. 常用的表示 「道歉」 的說法有：say sorry（說對不起）；be sorry（感到抱歉）；apologise（道歉）。我們可以用介詞 「to」 說明 「向」 某人道歉；用 「for」 引出 「為」 某事或某原因而道歉，「for」 後面可加名詞或 「-ing」 動名詞。
- I said sorry to my friend for forgetting her birthday.
- I‘m sorry for the incovenience.
- She apologised to her brother for breaking his toy by accident.
- I aplogise for my inapropriate joke earlier.
2. 口語中常見的簡單道歉句式如下。注意使用句子的場合，以下句子按比較輕鬆、不正式至比較嚴肅、正式的順序排列。
- My bad.
- My mistake.
- My apologies.
- It’s all my fault.
- Please forgive me.
- I take full responsibility.
- It won’t happen again.
