apologetic是什么意思

双语用例

• The other element that seems open to criticism is the somewhat apologetic vein that runs through most of the contributions.

• He was diffident, and at times almost apologetic, yet he set people thinking and planted seeds of ideas which left an indelible influence.

• Lyrics (often inaudible) tend to be introspective, pessimistic, passive, sometimes ironic, or apologetic.

• Furthermore, it turned out that for a long time historiography had a strongly apologetic character (instead of aiming to reconstruct past events).

• Ironically, the apologetic purpose of these later works may have militated against the inclusion of even more material regarding the miraculous.

• Hence, their writings had a strongly apologetic cast, and this over rode their weakly stated arguments that sinning rulers need not be obeyed.

• Several were apologetic about it: ' reluctantly yes'; ' yes, afraid so'; ' sadly, yes'.

• In reaction, the empiricism of contemporary scholarship reopens the process of his thought and acts as apologetic for our psyches.