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mea culpa

/mey-uh -kuhl-puh, mee-uh; Latin me-ah kool-pah/US // ˈmeɪ ə ˈkʌl pə, ˈmi ə; Latin ˈmɛ ɑ ˈkʊl pɑ //

忏悔,歉意,错了

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Definitions

interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1
    • : my fault!.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural me·a cul·pas.

    • : an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.

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Examples

  • So he’s about to offer a rare mea culpa — and undertake an ambitious plan to remake programming at MTV and sister units, including Comedy Central, VH1 and even Paramount Plus.

  • How Facebook wrote its rules for TrumpZuckerberg’s testimony will not be a mea culpa.

  • As a lighthearted mea culpa, the introductory video for Neutron showed Beck eating his own hat.

  • Speaking to reporters outside his home, he offered an explanation that doubled as a mea culpa.

  • Jackson and the other “Countdown” hosts all gave mea culpas on the show that aired the Sunday after Limbaugh’s comments.

  • On August 17, just a few weeks before the fall campaign iced off, he had to go on national TV to offer a mea kinda sorta culpa.

  • In Washington, where politicians have mastered the art of the mea culpa, those words would not normally warrant much attention.

  • Like Gates, I also lost my policy objectivity—mea culpa—but for all the right reasons, as I believed then and still do.

  • Now I think Obama was right to do that mea culpa bit last week.

  • At the end, the two embraced and Eminem flicked off the crowd, a middle-finger mea culpa.

  • Benign respdit pater ipse Membertou neophytos se esse, verum imperarem; in mea potestate esse omnia.

  • Neither Power has been able to avoid the feeling, mea res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

  • "Oh, yes, I am sure you would run away if the armoured knight with his wild eyes should come nearer," said Mea.

  • Mea, who was sitting on the bench under the large apple tree, with a book, put aside the volume and came running.

  • "She certainly could move her proud stilts a little quicker when she sees how Mea is running," Kurt said angrily.