Spoken English（022）

• Please forgive me.I don’t mean that
• Please forgive my carelessness
• Please excuse me,I have to run
• That’s okey
• It’s nothing
• it doesn’t matter at all
• Never mind
• Don’t worry about that
• Just forget it
• I’m really sorry to be late again
• I’m awfully sorry,I didn’t realize
• It was wrong of me
• I hope you will excuse me
• I appologize for that
• But I’m afraid I’ll have to put off the meeting
• OK,Let’s get started,Mike,we’ll begin with reports on the peace Clinic.Is everythings going smoothly?
• Uh,I’m afraid there will be a delay of at least one week
• What’s holding things up?
• It’s my fault,I didn’t hire enough people,I screwed up
• Ok,these things happen,but what have you done to correct the situation?Aren’t the guys working overtime?
• Yeah,but they’ve been working overtime for a month now,,and they aren’t all happy about it
• Well,have you hired more people
• I put a ad in the newspaper,but i haven’t got many replies so far
• How long ago was the ad in the paper
• Six days ago.I wonder why we’re not getting a better response
• There is a lot of construction in this area right now.There’s the new convention center and new headquarters for IBM.It is hard to find good workers at the moment
• I’m sorry,I made a big mistake not hiring enough guys on the crew last spring
• Ok.Tell the guys it’ll be just one more week of overtime.But we’ve got back on schedule