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理由
Justification
Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
安德森的揭发丑闻是经常被用来为可疑作品辩护的有争议的结局之一。
Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.
然而,这场战争的模式、理由和所有游戏都是不诚实的。
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
骑士精神还有另外一面。如果它给予宽大处理,它可以以同样的理由调用控制。
Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
让我尽可能清楚地说:无论多么强烈的不满或多么严重的伤害,都没有理由杀害无辜。
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
处理复杂性是一种低效且不必要的时间、注意力和精力的浪费。当事情本来可以简单的时候,却没有任何理由把它复杂化。
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.
如果你想研究这些奇怪的生物,你最好有一个很好的理由。在一些鲜为人知的昆虫身上研究基因结构是不好的,因为从来没有人听说过。
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
每一个哲学问题,当它经过必要的分析和论证时,就会发现,要么不是真正的哲学问题,要么就是我们所说的逻辑问题。
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.
但与此同时,关于他们的老生常谈却是正确的:每个角色都是自己故事中的英雄。每个人对自己的行为都有令人信服的理由。给这些人发声很有趣。