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Sorry! 道歉的价值！ Is sorry the hardest word? Not for the British Education Secretary Michael Gove, who has apologised recently to his former French teacher for misbehaving in class. It took him 30 years to express regret for, as he said, competing with his classmates to ask clever-dick questions“(一个为了卖弄聪明的问题 ) and indulging in pathetic showing off. In a letter published in a magazine, Mr Gove says: It may be too late to say Im sorry. But, as my mum told me, its never too late to set the record straight.“(纠正错误，澄清问题事实 ) Mr Clegg wanted the electorate(选民,有选举权者,选区 ) to forgive him for having broken his word and not voting against increases in student tuition fees. But a satirical website added music to the track. It is difficult to be sure if the apology was heartfelt(衷心的、发自肺腑的 ) or insincere, but it turned out to be a catchy tune(好记的曲子 ). . Researchers suggest that people have too high an expectation of the power of saying sorry. Dutch psychologist David De Cremer and his colleagues say in a study published in Psychological Science that receiving an apology isnt as healing as people like to think. Nevertheless, apologies might be an important social tool as they reaffirm the existence of rules that need to be observed In Britain, the word sorry is often said and heard. If you step on someone elses toe by chance you have to apologise but the person whose foot was squashed has to do it too. It conveys the idea that none of you is left with hard feelings. The Education Secretarys apology might have gone down well with his old teacher but it might land him in trouble. According to the Daily Mail newspaper, Mr Goves mother didnt know he was causing trouble at school and said: He would have been strung up if I had known he was being so cheeky.“(调皮捣蛋的 ) I can never get in touch with him these days - it just goes through to his answering machine - but when I do eventually speak to him, Ill give him a good telling off(批评、斥责 ). * It seems contrite(悔过自新的 ) politicians are