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Dear Annie:I have a weird problem that I hope you can help me with. A couple of weeks ago, my team was in a big meeting with another team, our boss, his boss, and a very senior person both managers report to. At one point, my boss was presenting the results of a research project I had worked on, and he got a couple of key figures wrong. The numbers came from an earlier version of the report that we had since revised, so I spoke up and corrected him. 亲爱的安妮：我有一个奇怪的问题，希望您能帮助我。几周前，我的团队与另外一只团队召开了一次大规模会议，我们的上司，他的顶头上司，以及一位公司高层，都出席了会议。我的上司在介绍由我负责的一个研究项目的结果时，几个关键数据出现了错误。这些数据来自报告较早的版本，我们早已对其进行了修改，于是我站起来纠正了这些错误。 I really like and respect my boss, and the last thing I intended was to embarrass him or make him look bad. I just spoke without thinking. But now he’s freezing me out and won’t even look at me. I would like to crawl under my desk and stay there, possibly forever. Is it too late to apologize? What would you say to him if you were me? —Foot Stuck in Mouth 我真的很喜欢和尊重我的上司，我从没想过要令他尴尬或让他出丑。我只是下意识说了那些话。但现在，他开始排挤我，甚至都不看我一眼。我真希望爬到桌子底下，永远也别出来。现在道歉是否为时已晚？如果您是我，您会对他说些什么？——F.S.M. | 
