因遗失借书致歉Because of losing a borrowed book
Dear Frank:
I am terribly sorry to tell you that I have lost the valuable book you were so kind to lend me last week. I read it everyday and intended to finish it next month. Last night when I came to my room, it was nowhere to be found. I will try to recover it as soon as possible. If I fail to find it, I will get a new book for you.
But I am afraid it can never take the place of the old one. Old books are like old friends. Once lost, they can never be replaced. They are connected with cherished associations which the new ones can never have. And for this irrecoverable loss, I am to blame. I was so careless with my things. This is a warning to me to be more careful in the future.
Yours truly,
Tom
Dear Ms Jeremy,
Thank you for your letter of 6 October. After supplying your restaurants for 5 years, I was extremely sorry to hear that the batch of bowls and forks which you received on 2 September was not of usual quality.
After careful investigation, we found that the cause of the problem was a faulty packing machine. It has now been repaired. I can promise you that this type of problem will not happen again.
According to the sales contract between us, we will, of course, replace your faulty delivery free of charge.
I would like to offer our apologies once again and thank you being an excellent customer.
Yours sincerely，(Your Name)
dear frank:
i am terribly sorry to tell you that i have lost the valuable book you were so kind to lend me last week. i read it everyday and intended to finish it next month. last night when i came to my room, it was nowhere to be found. i will try to recover it as soon as possible. if i fail to find it, i will get a new book for you.
Dear Miss ,
I’m your student Tian Chen. Today I’m writing this letter to apologize for my absenteeism in your class with the mood of repentant and ashamed. I have already known my mistake and promised that it will never ever happen again.
When I got my steps into this campus, you and other teachers warned us have to attend classes on time and there was not allowed absenting. Meanwhile I also was told that if I really have any reasonable reasons I suppose to ask for leave first. Only after I got permission can I be out of the class. I have to explain why I was out this time. One of my friends came to visit me. That friend is someone who I really care about somehow lost touch with me for quite a long time. When he arrived here was the time happen to you class began. I chose to give up that class because I can’t wait to meet him after the class as well as in my opinion there is no need to ask for leave to you just for that inadequate excuse. Even though I did that with deep compunction I still did that. That’s why the letter came to you: I’m showing my introspection of making such this mistake!
I do apologize for my absenteeism. The mistake I made run counter to my principals. I know you are angry with me. I’m so sorry to disappoint you. Moreover, as a student, to attend every class without any stupid excuses is our liability and I didn’t perform the responsibility of being a student. After that I thought for a long time and it’s going to my time to pay the price for my impulsion. I have deadly wrong information in my mind which includes three reasons:
First of all is that I don’t have much thought consciousness. If I really interested in this class would I will be absent? Definitely not. I should focus on study more meanwhile value the resources available for us right now. We will not have any classes like in campus when we go into society. How can we despise the precious chances!
Secondly, lack of respect to either you or this class which is cannot be forgiven. From now on I going to show more respect to you and the knowledge as well as pay more attention to important affairs. The lazy in my body have to be gotten rid of.
The last one is that I made a bad influence upon other students. If everyone could be absent to the class then the situation will be out of control. There is no more discipline, no more regulation, will absolutely disturb the normal instructing.
Above all, I already aware it’s a severe mistake. I promise I will behave myself much better in the future and completely eradicate this kind of things happen again. Please forgive me this time and trust me in my future!
Sincerely faithful,
Your student: Tian Chen
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Zhang Dali:
I am sorry not to attend yesterday's birthday you will, allow me to explain reasons for this: Originally, I'm ready to go to your birthday, but I did not have prior notice of an old friend I come to my house, I also do not off open body, I can only accompany an old friend, and when he left, you will have the birthday will be over, I can not participate.
I am deeply sorry for this, I hope you can understand me, I also believe that this will not affect our friendship.
Finally, let me this evening to give you the best wishes: Happy birthday to you!
Your friends
Dear Sarah,
I am terribly sorry to tell you that I am unable to attend your birthday part next Thursday evening. That is owing to the fact that my younger brother suddenly fell ill and was taken to a hospital this morning. I have to go there immediately and take care of him. As told by the doctor in charge, it will take around five days for him to recover and I have asked my boss for a leave.
I really regret that I cannot go to celebrate your birthday personally and would miss the perfect chance of enjoying myself with all our old friends. I have chosen a small gift for you and will send it to you tomorrow to show my best wishes. Besides, please give my regards to our friends when you meet them at the party.
Cordially,
Li Ming
3、因未能践约赴宴致歉unable to keep one's promise
dear miss nancy,
much to my regret i was unable to keep my promise to attend your birthday party last saturday, owing to the fact that my little son was suddenly taken ill early that day.
hoping to see you soon.
truly yours,
tom
亲爱的南希小姐：
小儿上周六突然生病，因此未能应约赴生日宴，殊觉抱歉，希望原谅，再见。
汤姆
Dear Sarah,
I am terribly sorry to tell you that I am unable to attend your birthday part next Thursday evening. That is owing to the fact that my younger brother suddenly fell ill and was taken to a hospital this morning. I have to go there immediately and take care of him. As told by the doctor in charge, it will take around five days for him to recover and I have asked my boss for a leave.
I really regret that I cannot go to celebrate your birthday personally and would miss the perfect chance of enjoying myself with all our old friends. I have chosen a small gift for you and will send it to you tomorrow to show my best wishes. Besides, please give my regards to our friends when you meet them at the party.
Cordially,
Dear teacher
When I leave the classroom without permission, I found that I made a big mistake. I did not wait until the teacher came, went to eat. This is a lack of respect for the teacher. When I was young, my parents hope I can respect the teacher and classmates, but I did not do this point. I'm rude and arrogant behavior let you received distress. I hope you can give me a chance to start with a clean slate, after all, we are your most loving students. Think carefully, these days I do have some confused, make these bad things, and again I am sorry. I promise I won't do such a thing.
Your student Victor
Hello Rachel!
I am terribly sorry for that you are angry last time. As a student, I hope you can be happy and we can talk with each other like old friends. It is my mistake to forget your homework of Christmas mask, but I had never late for your classes before. I like your courses and if I realized we have the homework to do, I would try my best to finish it. It is really a bad habit not to take homework seriously.
You are different from our other college teachers. You will be worried about our bad situations and take some actions you think it is effective. Thanks too much, Rachel, you remind me of our major is English. And what we ought to do most is to focus more attention on English. There are so many attractions around our college life. Sometimes, we maybe lose our direction in our way for those seeming unimportant or uninteresting but alluring.
Above all, it’s what I want to talk with you. To be honest, we have formed the habit to spend our more time in attending the activities, especially in our faculty in which Li Yi ming enjoys taking our more time and vim to do some chores. As you know, we Chinese students devote too much energy to our elementary schools. When we entered into our university at first, we are willing to join more clubs away from the life like our high schools. We hate the study style of working hard to death, such as getting up early at 5:00 in the morning, staying up to the midnight,
reciting dull subjects the whole day or writing the simulated test papers again and again. We didn’t have any interest in that. Fortunately, we all have a aim, university, where we can be free, we can be getting up late without alarm clock，we can take part in all kinds of activities without study, we can do everything what we want to do. Maybe it is I have thought. But it’s not the fact, what we have thought or dreamed of before is also a high dream. Sometimes we did get up later. However, it is because the day before we were tormented by meaningless chores. Sometimes, we went to bed early, but it is because we were exhausted by the political tasks. We are still far away from the word “freedom”. Gradually, we like to slack for everything front of us. We are afraid of the futures of us--whether it will be limited awful like our histories.
I can think of nothing to say. But you really remind me of that life should be colorful but rigid and hesitated.
This is a warning to me to be more responsible for myself in the future.
因未能及时还书致歉unable to return borrowed book on time
dear kate:
excuse me for my long delaying in returning to you your “robinson crusoe” which i read through with great interest. i had finished reading the book and was about to return it when my cousin came to see me. never having seen the book, she was so interested in it that i had to retain it longer. however, i hope that in view of the additional delight thus afforded by your book, you will overlook my negligence in not returning it sooner.
thanking you again for the loan.
sincerely yours,
tom
亲爱的凯特：
我迟迟未能归还您的那本《鲁滨逊飘流记》，请原谅。该书我读得津津有味。读完后，正预备归还您时，我的表妹来访，见这本书也感兴趣，定要借去一读。为了让别人也能分享您那本书所给予的乐趣，我不能及时归还。我想再延迟些日子奉还，谅您不会介意的。
再次感谢您的慷慨。
汤姆
Mr.wang,
I hope that your travel plans will bring you back to Shanghai in the near future, so that we may have the opportunity of taking care of you again and to show you that these regrettable events were not a true
example of our usual high services and hospitality. In the meantime if I, or any of my team, can be of any further assistance to you please do not hesitate to contact me at your earliest possible convenience.
Yours sincerely,
Yours truly，
Tom
Dear Miss Nancy,
Much to my regret I was unable to keep my promise to attend your birthday party last Saturday, owing to the fact that my little son was suddenly taken ill early that day.
Hoping to see you soon.
Truly yours,
Tom
terribly sorry to tell you that I have lost the valuable book you were so kind to lend me last week. I read it everyday and intended to finish it next month. Last night when I came to my room, it was nowhere to be found. I will try to recover it as soon as possible. If I fail to find it, I will get a new book for you.
But I am afraid it can never take the place of the old one. Old books are like old friends. Once lost, they can never be replaced. They are connected with cherished associations which the new ones can never have. And for this irrecoverable loss, I am to blame. I was so careless with my things. This is a warning to me to be more careful in the future.
Yours truly,
Tom
Dear Mr. Sherry,
I am indeed very sorry that I missed the examination on International Business English Writing you gave last Friday. I feel awful about it and want you to know what happened that day.
I suddenly fell sick early that morning and my parents had to send me to the hospital. Please find enclosed a copy of the medical bill.
I sincerely hope you can understand my situation and accept my apology. I would appreciate your allowing me to take a make-up examination. I will come to your office during your office hour on Monday to discuss this possibility with you.
Once again, I apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Sincerely yours,
Zoe
因迟复来信致歉because of answering one's letter late
dear david:
i am afraid that you will think me unpardonably negligent in not having answered your letter dated 7, december sooner, but when i have told you the reason, i trust you will be convinced that the neglect was excusable. when your letter arrived, i was just in hong kong. as my family could not forward it to me during my absence, it has been, therefore, lying on my desk until the moment when i took it up. now the first thing i have to hasten to do is to write to you these few lines to express my deep regret.
i enjoyed many pleasant sights during my trip. i shall be pleased to give you an account to of them when i see you next.
sincerely yours,
tom
Dear Mary,
I’m very sorry for not having replied to your July 6th letter sooner. When your letter
arrived, I was in Beijing. As my secretary couldn’t forward it to me, it has been lying on my desk until I got back.
Thank you for all your news. It is good to know that your company has agreed to sign the contract to continue the cooperation with us. And we surely will have a bigger success in the near future.
Look forward to catching up and once again apologize for the delay.
Sincerely,
Tom
亲爱的玛丽,
我很抱歉没有尽快回复您7月6日的来信。当你的信到达时,我在北京。当我的秘书不能转告我,已经躺在我的桌子上,直到我回来。
我非常感谢你的消息。很高兴知道你的公司已经同意签署合同与我们继续合作。我们肯定会有一个更大的成功在不久的将来。
期待迎头赶上,再次道歉。
真诚地,
汤姆
因未能及时还书致歉unable to return borrowed book on time
dear kate:
excuse me for my long delaying in returning to you your “robinson crusoe” which i read through with great interest. i had finished reading the book and was about to return it when my cousin came to see me. never having seen the book, she was so interested in it that i had to retain it longer. however, i hope that in view of the additional delight thus afforded by your book, you will overlook my negligence in not returning it sooner.
thanking you again for the loan.
sincerely yours,
tom
Dear David:
I am afraid that you will think me unpardonably negligent in not
having answered your letter dated 7, December sooner, but when I have told you the reason, I trust you will be convinced that the neglect was excusable. When your letter arrived, I was just in Hong Kong. As my family could not forward it to me during my absence, it has been, therefore, lying on my desk until the moment when I took it up. Now the first thing I have to hasten to do is to write to you these few lines to express my deep regret.
I enjoyed many pleasant sights during my trip. I shall be pleased to give you an account to of them when I see you next.
Sincerely yours,
Tom
Dear David，
亲爱的大卫，
I’m writing this letter to express my sincerely appologies to you for losing the book you lent to me. I’m very appreciated you lent it to me. In order to give it back to you as soon as possible, I took it to the library yesterday. I also borrow some other books in the library before I left. Unluckily, when I arrived at my dormitory, I couldn’t find your book. I searched all my dormitory and the road from the dormitory to the library. The next day I also looked for the library. However, I couldn’t find your book. I’m sorry I can’t give back to you on time as I promised before. But I will buy a new one for you later.Hope you can accept my appologies.
我写这封信是为了表达我对弄丢了你借给我的书的真诚的歉意。我很感激你把书借给我。为了能够尽快把书还给你，我昨天把它带到图书馆去看了。在我离开图书馆之前我也借了几本图书馆的书。很不幸的是，我回到宿舍后发现你的书不见了。我把宿舍，宿舍到图书馆的路都找遍了。 第二天我也去图书馆找了。可是，我就死找不到你的书。我很抱歉不能遵守之前的承诺按时把书还给你。但是我后面会帮你买一本新的。希望你能接受我的道歉。
Yours Sincerely,
Li Lei
李磊
因遗失借书致歉because of losing a borrowed book
dear frank:
i am terribly sorry to tell you that i have lost the valuable book you were so kind to lend me last week. i read it everyday and intended to finish it next month. last night when i came to my room, it was nowhere to be found. i will try to recover it as soon as possible. if i fail to find it, i will get a new book for you.
but i am afraid it can never take the place of the old one. old books are like old friends. once lost, they can never be replaced. they are connected with cherished associations which the new ones can never have. and for this irrecoverable loss, i am to blame. i was so careless with my things. this is a warning to me to be more careful in the future.
yours truly,
tom
Dear_____,
I am writing this letter to express my apology that ______________.
I feel terribly sorry about this.
Once again, I am very sorry for any inconvenience caused. I will be really appreciated if you can accept my apologies and understand my situation.
Yours Sincerely
_________
Dear Frank:
I am terribly sorry to tell you that I have lost the valuable book you were so kind to lend me last week. I read it everyday and intended to finish it next month. Last night when I came to my room, it was nowhere to be found. I will try to recover it as soon as possible. If I fail to find it, I will get a new book for you.
But I am afraid it can never take the place of the old one. Old books are like old friends. Once lost, they can never be replaced. They are connected with cherished associations which the new ones can never have. And for this irrecoverable loss, I am to blame. I was so careless with my things. This is a warning to me to be more careful in the future.
Yours truly,
Tom
Dear Bob,
写作目的：I’m writing to apologize for having forgotten to return the “the Beatles” CD to you when I left Canada.
改写提纲一 ：I was in such a hurry that I packed everything in my luggage without checking carefully. Had I paid more attention then, I wouldn’t have made such a stupid mistake.
改写提纲二：Now something must be done to solve the problem because I understand you cherish the CD enormously. I can either send it to you by express mail or alternatively compensate you at a reasonable price. If you do not mind, I may bring it back to you next time I go to Canada.
期待回信：Please let me know which solution you prefer at your earliest convenience. I really hope you will accept my sincere apology.
Faithfully yours,
Li Ming
参考译文：
亲爱的鲍勃：
我从加拿大回来后收拾行李时突然发现了你上周向你借的音乐CD，这才明白我忘记将CD归还给你了，我感到万分抱歉!很抱歉你现在不能听了。
我向你借的CD是加拿大的，所以你应该可以在当地商店买到另外一个。所以你能不能自己买一个，我把钱寄给你?如果你找不到另外一个类似的CD了，我就用特快专递把这个CD寄回去。如果有你喜欢的其他方案，请告知我。
再次为我的粗心道歉。期待你的回复。
真诚的，
李明
unable to keep one's promise
dear miss nancy,
much to my regret i was unable to keep my promise to attend your birthday party last saturday, owing to the fact that my little son was suddenly taken ill early that day.
hoping to see you soon.
truly yours,
tom
Dear Charlie,
Kindly excuse me for my not being able to see you off at the airport this Saturday as I have promised.
A major business partner of our company will be attending an important conference in Xiamen this weekend, and my boss finally chooses me to accompany him there to negotiate about a new transaction. I have just been informed of this plan and am happy about the decision—this is an opportunity to both display and enhance my abilities, so I am afraid I cannot be present at the airport.
Pursuing study overseas is an essential step in the accomplishment of your dream.
How I wish I could have the chance to share with you my personal feelings and suggestions before you are away! I hereby send you a gift to wish you good luck. Please forgive me.
Cordially,
complete our Survey). I was most concerned to learn that you felt that you had a less than satisfactory experience during your time in our
establishment. Please accept my sincere apologies on behalf of the hotel. I have read your form personally to learn from your comments and
experiences whilst staying with us. I quite agree that the points you raise are unacceptable and assure you we will do everything we can to rectify them. I have raised the matter of the manner and service standard of our associates, room maintenance issue, with the parties concerned so that we may all have the opportunity to learn from it.
I do hope that despite this you will agree that overall the services and facilities of the hotel met with your expectations. I assure you that total customer satisfaction is always our goal and we strive to achieve a high level of seamless and personalized service. This is after all what sets us apart from the competition and makes us truly “abcdefg”.
Mr.wang, I hope that your travel plans will bring you back to Shanghai in the near future, so that we may have the opportunity of taking care of you again and to show you that these regrettable events were not a true
example of our usual high services and hospitality. In the meantime if I, or any of my team, can be of any further assistance to you please do not hesitate to contact me at your earliest possible convenience.
Yours sincerely,
1、因迟复来信致歉because of answering one's letter late
dear david:
i am afraid that you will think me unpardonably negligent in not having answered your letter dated 7, december sooner, but when i have told you the reason, i trust you will be convinced that the neglect was excusable. when your letter arrived, i was just in hong kong. as my family could not forward it to me during my absence, it has been, therefore, lying on my desk until the moment when i took it up. now the first thing i have to hasten to do is to write to you these few lines to express my deep regret.
i enjoyed many pleasant sights during my trip. i shall be pleased to give you an account to of them when i see you next.
sincerely yours,
tom
亲爱的戴维：
请原谅我收到您12月7日的来信后迟迟未复，现将原因告诉您，相信您一定会谅解的。您的来信到来时，我正巧在香港，家人无法及时转递。你的信一直放在我写字台上，直到我回到才看见，拖至今天才回信，深表歉意。
这次出去旅行饱览了许多美丽景色，下次见到您时，将告诉您一切。
汤姆