From the point of view of dynamic social distance, the researcher collects data of speech act of apology through discourse completion test (DCT), and finds out that Chinese apologies are more sensitive to social distance than English ones.

• 摘要从社会距离角度出发，通过“语篇补全测试”，研究汉英文化中致歉策略在动态的社会距离中的分布。