借口

Maybe it's a kind of propaganda as a reason to attack the people in Samarra and other cities, Mr. Hassan said.

也许这是一种宣传，以此作为攻打萨迈拉市和其它城市民众的一个借口。

When goals sare difficult to achieve,some people decide that those goals are not worth achieving.

当目标难以实现的时候，有些人就会找借口说时机未成熟。

I therefore diverted the present Discourse between me and my Man, rising up hastily, as upon some sudden Occasion of going out; then sending him for something a good way off, I seriously pray'd to God that he would enable me to instruct savingly this poor Savage, assisting by his Spirit the Heart of the poor ignorant Creature, to receive the Light of the Knowledge of God in Christ, reconciling him to himself, and would guide me to speak so to him from the Word of God, as his Conscience might be convinc'd, hid Eyes open'd, and his Soul sav'd.

因此，我马上把我和星期五之间的谈话岔到别的事情上去。我匆匆忙忙站起来，仿佛突然想到一件什么要紧的事情，必须出去一下。同时，我又找了一个借口，把他差到一个相当远的地方去办件什么事。

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保护公众不受欺骗和侵害一直是降低个人隐私程度的有效借口。

Are you slacking off in the office?

这么多的借口，你是不是在办公室偷懒呀？

He is always slaking off, he never did any work. He always

他老是偷懒，什么都不干，还总是有借口。

"There were a lot of children there who still believe in Santa Claus, or did so until last night," Sue Smee, who attended the service with her five- and nine-year-old sons, said,"It has left us parents with a lot of explaining to do today," she added.

休·斯米带着自己5岁和9岁的孩子一起参加了那个布道。她说：&仍然有很多孩子对圣诞老人的存在深信不疑，或者说在昨晚之前还相信。而今天，我们做家长的不得不找各种借口来向孩子们解释这一切。&

They use it synecdochically -- and one of the problems of knowing a word like "synecdochically" is that you really want an excuse to say synecdochically. And so this whole talk has just been an excuse to get me to the point where I could say synecdochically to all of you. So I'm really sorry.

这是一种借代的说法--知道&synecdochically&会引起的问题是：你真的很想找个理由去说synecdochically，这整个演讲也就是个借口，为了能让我可以有机会跟你们说synecdochically这个词。

Still, a tragedy like the Taconic crash often serves to wake us up from that kind of excuse-making.

不过，像Taconic公路撞车事件这样的悲剧通常能帮助我们从此类借口中醒悟。

Misfortune can be used as an excuse, but Du Toit used it as motivation.

不幸可以作为借口，而杜托伊特却把它当作动力。

Lugalbanda was a god and shepherd king of Uruk where he was worshipped for over a thousand years.

Lugalbanda 是神和被崇拜了一千年多 Uruk古埃及喜克索王朝国王。

I am coming just now,' and went on perfuming himself with Hunut, then he came and sat.

我来只是现在，'歼灭战perfuming自己与胡努特，那麼，他来到和SAT 。