| 单词 | sorry card |
| 释义 | > as lemmassorry card a. attributive. Designating an item used to express regret or condolences, as sorry card, sorry gift, etc. Also: (Australian) designating an event dedicated to expressing regret for the mistreatment of the Aboriginal peoples; chiefly in Sorry Day n. at Compounds 2b. ΚΠ 1969 Times Reporter (Dover, Ohio) 13 Jan. 13/7 By this time you should have received a ‘Sorry’ card from the company. 1982 K. Auletta Underclass i. 14 Leon Harris remembers shooting people and sending unsigned ‘sorry letters’ to the relatives. 2002 H. Gooder & J. M. Jacobs in A. Blunt & C. McEwan Postcolonial Geographies xii. 211 It would seem that for many non-indigenous participants in the Sorry Events it was the performance of the apology that was centrally important. 2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 July d6/4 He teaches salespeople to suggest a ‘sorry gift’..for a wife who might be disappointed that her husband just dropped a sizable sum on his own wrist. < as lemmas |
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