借口

They get all their chawing by borrowing; they say to a fellow,"I wisht you'd len' me a chaw, Jack, I jist this minute give Ben Thompson the last chaw I had"-- which is a lie pretty much everytime; it don't fool nobody but a stranger; but Jack ain't no stranger, so he says: YOU give him a chaw, did you?

他们嚼的烟都是借来的——他们对一个家伙说：&杰克，借口烟嚼嚼，怎么样。我刚把我最后一口烟给了朋·汤浦逊&——而这是谎话。往往每回都如此，除非是生人，这骗不了谁，而杰克可并非生人，他就说：你给过他一口烟，真是这样么？

It's not only that moral universalisms -- accounts of common human nature, interests, or goals -- have so often served as alibis for colonialist and imperialist projects (as the quote from Sun Yat Sen avers). The quest for normative foundations that speak to all rational beings faces sustained and compelling criticism from Neo-Aristotelians, Neo-Wittgensteinians, Pragmatists, and others.

不仅仅道德普世主义（共有的人类本性，共同的利益和目标等主张）常常被用作殖民主义和帝国主义事业的借口（正如所引孙中山的话所断言的），而且寻求对所有理性人有效的规范性之努力还遇上了持续的和强有力的批评，这些批评源于新亚里士多德主义（麦金太尔，泰勒，新维特根斯坦主义，实用主义和其它。

He argues that extra American troops will only antagonise the Afghans and give the Taliban a recruiting tool.

他表示，增兵只会使阿富汗人更反感美国，并且给塔利班招募成员提供借口。

He argues that extra American troops will only antagonise the Afghans and give the Taliban a recruiting tool.

他表示，增兵只会使阿富汗人更反感美国，并且给塔利班招募成员提供借口。言之所及，人财两空

This matters, and not just to the passengers forced to endure its grubby, cramped, time-wasting disorganisation.

这一点很重要，而乘客被迫忍受污秽、狭促、浪费时间的无组织状态也不能以此为借口开脱。

No sloppy statements, no off-the-cuff remarks, no casual preparation and no excuses.

不允许有有散漫的陈述，不允许有简单随意的准备和任何借口。

One could chalk it up to rationalizing your plight.

有人会给自己的糟糕处境找到合理的借口。

One have to chalk it up to rationalizing your plight.

有人说，愿意&守旧&其实是为本人的窘境找借口。

The gifts are usually presented under the cloak of thanks or making friends.

送礼的借口往往是表示感谢或交朋友。

Under the cover of...

在……的掩护下；以……为借口

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 。