发错群了，怎么道歉？
How to say sorry in Chinese
Name: ________________ Date: ________
晚上十一点半，安娜躺在床上，给闺蜜写了一条微信：“今天开会，老板一个人说了三个小时。我睡着了两次，他都没看到！”
她放下手机，去洗澡了。
十分钟后，她拿起手机，脸一下子红了。那条微信没发给闺蜜，发进了公司群里！群里有三十个同事，还有老板。
她马上按住那条消息，想撤回。可是太晚了：消息发出两分钟以后，就撤回不了了。
只能道歉了。安娜学了两年中文，知道三个道歉的词。
“对不起”？太重了，好像她把老板的车开进了河里。
“不好意思”？这个太轻了，好像她只是开会迟到了一分钟。
“抱歉”？不太重，也不太轻，工作的时候常用。就是它了！
她认真地写：“抱歉，这条消息是发给朋友的。”又看了三遍，才敢发出去。
群里很安静，三十个人，没有一个说话。安娜看着手机，等老板说“没关系”。
一分钟后，老板回了一句：
“现在看到了。”
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开会 | kāihuì | to have a meeting; to attend a meeting |
| 洗澡 | xízǎo | to bathe; to take a bath or shower |
| 脸 | liǎn | face |
| 同事 | tóngshì | colleague; coworker |
| 以后 | yǐhòu | later; afterwards; in the future |
| 只能 | zhǐnéng | can only; have no choice but to |
| 河 | hé | river |
| 迟到 | chídào | to be late; to arrive late |
| 常用 | chángyòng | commonly used; everyday |
| 认真 | rènzhēn | conscientious; earnest; serious; to take seriously |
| 遍 | biàn | everywhere; all over |
| 安静 | ānjìng | quiet; peaceful; calm |
English (for the teacher)
At half past eleven at night, Anna lay in bed and wrote a WeChat message to her best friend: “In today’s meeting, the boss did all the talking for three hours. I fell asleep twice, and he didn’t see either time!”
She put her phone down and went to have a shower.
Ten minutes later, she picked up her phone and her face went red. It hadn’t gone to her best friend. It had gone to the company group chat! Thirty colleagues were in that group, and so was the boss.
She pressed and held the message straight away to unsend it. But it was too late: after two minutes, a message can’t be unsent.
All she could do was apologise. Anna had been learning Chinese for two years, and she knew three words for sorry.
“I’m sorry”? Too heavy, as if she’d driven the boss’s car into a river.
“Sorry about that”? This one was too light, as if she’d only been a minute late for a meeting.
“My apologies”? Not too heavy, not too light, and common at work. That was the one!
She wrote carefully: “My apologies, this message was meant for a friend.” She read it three more times before she dared to send it.
The group was silent. Thirty people, and not one of them said a word. Anna watched her phone, waiting for the boss to say “That’s OK”.
A minute later, the boss replied:
“I’ve seen it now.”