借口

In 1941 a request from an artist to see Rembrandt's Portrait of Margaretha de Geer resulted in the "Picture of the Month" scheme, in which a single painting was removed from Manod and exhibited to the general public in the National Gallery each month.

为使"艺术家们在任何借口下都能保持创作"，克拉克着手建立了战争艺术家咨询委员会。1941年，一位艺术家想看一看伦布兰特的Margaretha de Geer肖像画，这一请求带来了"每月画展"计划的实施。

That he was thuggish and greedy was a handy excuse.

他信杀人和贪婪的事情就成了最好的借口。

When Israel bombs Palestinian refugee camps killing many civilians -often without even a pretense of "reprisal"-or sends its troops into Lebanese villages in "counterterror" operations where they murder and destroy, or hijacks ships and dispatches hundreds of hostages to prison camps under horrifying conditions, this is not "terrorism"; in fact, the rare voices of protest are thunderously condemned by loyal party liners for their "anti-Semitism" and "double standard," demonstrated by their failure to join the chorus of praise for "a country that cares for human life", whose "high moral purpose" is the object of never-ending awe and acclaim, a country which, according to its admirers,"is held to a higher law, as interpreted for it by journalists".4

当以色列轰炸巴基斯坦难民营，杀害平民，甚至经常连"报复"这样的借口也没有的时候，或是以色列派部队进入黎巴嫩村庄发动"反恐"行动的时候，他们在其中进行谋杀和破坏，或是劫持船只，将数以百计的人质关进条件及其恐怖的监狱之中，凡此种种，皆非"恐怖主义"。实际上，稀少的抗议声遭到了上述原则之忠实追随者的强烈谴责，被斥之为"反犹主义"和"双重标准"，表明他们未能加入到赞美"一个关注人权的国家"的合唱中，这个国家"崇高的道德目标"是永不休止的敬畏和赞美的对象，根据推崇者的说法，它遵循更高的道德法则，们为它所阐述的那样。

So they are just using Tib**t as an excuse.

所以他们只是在利用XZ问题作为一个借口。

We have to keep doing this so they have no other reasons to use.

我们要一直这么做，直到他们没有任何借口可以使用。

The spirit moving him he would much have liked to follow Jack Tar's good example and leave the likeness there for a very few minutes to speak for itself on the plea he so that the other could drink in the beauty for himself, her stage presence being, frankly, a treat in itself which the camera could not at all do justice to.

251他在兴头儿上，颇想学学水手的好榜样，借口要……把照片稍微撂上几分钟，听任它发挥魅力，那么对方就可以独自陶醉于对美人儿的欣赏中了。

With Koli's Tongan roots, it seems that his culture has given him an excuse to be big and not worry about his weight.

Koli有汤加血统，这似乎给了他再胖也不用为体重烦恼的文化借口。（汤加以胖为美，越胖越美

Revered masters, like Arca Jeth of Arkania, had several students, including the brothers Ulic and Cay Qel-Droma and the Twi'lek Tott Doneeta.

人类社会的思想潮流可以分成二种。一说主义高于生命；一说生命高于主义。在发动战争战争时，人们以前者为理由；想结束战争时，人们拿后者做借口。

As he approaches his fifth international tournament with England, the defender has heard it all before — the same heady optimism, punctured by the same sense of panic when a leading player picks up an untimely injury, and the same old excuses when he and his team-mates traipse home at the quarter-final stage or thereabouts.

他将要代表国家队参加第五次世界大赛，这位后卫已经习惯了一切——同样的乐观，以及当核心球员不合时宜的受伤之后的同样的恐慌，还有还有在球队止步于1/4决赛或者那附近时的相似的借口。

Anemia, bronchitis, dysentery, and trench foot seemed to be an easy way out.

贫血症、支气管炎、痢疾，以及战壕足病似乎都是离开的借口。

I am accused of being overreligious," she said in her quiet, frank manner,"but that does not prevent me thinking the children very cruel who obstinately commit such suicide.""

客人们在卡罗利娜·埃凯家里，举止就文雅一些，因为卡罗利娜的母亲治家很严厉。

Designed by French fashion house Herm è s, this elegant uniform was manufactured in our home, Hong Kong, and was the first without a hat.

由著名品牌 Herm è s 设计，这件高贵的制服是香港本土制造，是我们第一套不配帽子的制服。