excuse

释义

n.

借口；理由；辩解；（正当的）理由

v.

原谅；宽恕；为…辩解（或找理由）；准许…离开

网络

藉口；免除

词形变化

复数：excuses 现在分词：excusing 过去式：excused

常用短语 8 组

excuse oneself

v. 为自己辩解；请求免除；请求准予离开

excuse for

借口；原谅

make one's excuses

(对不能出席社交聚会等)表示抱歉(或遗憾)

in excuse of

为……辩解

find an excuse

借故

without excuse

adj. 无故

reasonable excuse

合理解释，合理的辩解

excuse myself

原谅自己；替自己辩解

在例句中理解 36 句

1. With all that, you could excuse a young player for being a bit big-headed, but he was exactly the same afterwards.

   有那样的表现，你会原谅一个年轻球员的得意自大，但之后他还是原来那样（低调）。

2. I tried to remember the last time he'd stayed away like this, without an excuse, a phone call. . . He never had.

   我试图在记忆中找寻过往他不来也没有理由与来电的记录……但他从来没这么做过。

3. We remain with one last choice to remove the last weak excuse of the enemy for killing our people. We have decided to silence our guns.

   至少我们还拥有最后的选择权，可以不让敌人有继续杀害平民的借口，于是我们决定熄火停战。

4. Four centuries, two centuries, and one-and-a-half centuries: 2009 offers a fine excuse to celebrate two of the great iconoclasts of history.

   四百年，二百年，一百五十年：2009年，我们有足够的理由去纪念历史上这两座伟大的里程碑。

5. "It's a difficult task, " he said. "Yet the difficulty of this task is no excuse for avoiding it. "

   布什总统说：“这是一项艰难的任务。然而任务艰难并不能成为回避问题的借口。”

6. Though to be fair, if you were late for a class, did your professor ever accept, "I had to stop and help a wounded traveler" as an excuse?

   然而平心而论，如果你在课上迟到了，教授会相信“路上我不得不停下来帮助一个受伤的旅客”的借口么？

7. But there was no excuse for so many Democrats to go along with that message, including the leadership.

   但是，很多民主党赞同这个讯息，包括其领导阶层，这是不能找借口的。

8. Jane's bad results were partly due to illness, but in the case of John, no such excuse is possible.

   简的成绩不好，部分原因是由于她生病，但就约翰的情况而言，这样的理由却不能成立。

9. In his speech Wednesday night, President Obama said the idea is only one part of his plan and should not be used as an excuse .

   在奥的周三晚上的发言中，他说这个主意只是他的计划中一个部分而不应该被用为一个理由和借口。

10. The weather presents a perfect excuse to cuddle up on the couch with you and a glass of wine.

    天气是个不错的借口，好让她和你依偎着蜷缩在床上，再来一杯酒。

11. He acknowledges (v. 5) that he was born a sinner, but that did not excuse him for what he had done. He did it.

    他承认自己在母腹当中便有罪（5节），可是，他却知道自己不能以此作为犯罪的藉口。

12. Delivering some papers to her but I think it was just an excuse to see her.

    据说他正在给她送一些文章，但我认为这只是他想见她的借口。

13. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday that there was 'no excuse' for further delays in resuming gas supplies.

    欧盟委员会主席巴罗佐（JoseManuelBarroso）周一表示，没有借口可以再次推迟恢复供气。

14. You can easily fake up an excuse to avoid going out with him.

    为避免同他一起外出，你可以很容易地编造一个借口。

15. He began to use sickness as an excuse, developing an embarrassing tendency to faint under pressure.

    他开始以生病为藉口，在压力太大时，会令人尴尬的昏厥。

16. Here is our test. -are we true with ourselves in matters concerning our thoughts and actions? Do we excuse sin as if it really is not sin?

    考验我们的是——在我们所行所做的每一件事上，我们是否诚实的面对我们自己？我们是否为我们的罪找借口，把它说成不是罪？

17. I love you, but you do not love me, excuse me, I can only say goodbye forever, and you, and you may not be the goodbye to see me.

    我爱你，可是你不爱我，对不起了，我只能和你说再见，永远的再见，你不可能再见到我了。

18. For a man to excuse himself in this way and stop listening is much better than trying to explain away her hurt.

    男人这样先行道歉及停止倾听，比试图去分析她的伤害好得多。

19. He said the excuse given was that there was no warrant.

    他说给出的解释是没有正当理由。

20. He used his wife's birthday as a convenient excuse for not going to the meeting.

    他说要给妻子过生日，利用这个借口，就不去参加会议了。

21. MUSIC festivals are typically a great excuse for revellers to enjoy a bit of drunken debauchery.

    音乐节日通常是狂欢者沉湎酒色的主要理由。

22. Colleagues at school is always the case, as an excuse to care for her, she was close.

    在学校里同事总是这样、那样地找借口关心她，接近她。

23. Sheldon: Well, excuse me. That was not a betrayal. That was an experiment to determine at what concentration food starts tasting "moths. "

    谢尔顿：不好意思，那又不算背叛，这只是个实验，用来证明什么浓度会使食物尝起来有“蛀虫”感。

24. In excuse of his failure, he said he had been ill.

    为给他的失败开脱他说他一直生病。

25. This is a blasphemous lie; and the fact that it is on the lips of every nurserymaid does not excuse it in the least.

    而这简直就是亵渎上帝的谎言；并且事实上从每位保姆的口中都不会听到一丁点类似宽恕这种谎言的话。

26. But now that it has happened, it is still a fine excuse to shore up the police state and lock everything down.

    但是现在，它已经发生了，它仍是一个很好的借口，托警察国家和锁都记录下来。

27. The thought swam into her mind out of nowhere and she realized it was a great relief to have this as an excuse .

    这想法不知从何处涌入她的脑海，她意识到有了这种理由心里觉得大大地宽慰了。

28. If a person really care about you, so ta can always crowded draw time with you, there was no excuse, lies, no cash not pledge.

    假如一个人真的在乎你，那么他总能挤得出时间陪你，没有什么借口、谎言，没有兑现不了的誓言。

29. The Russian girl had dropped in after we toddled off to bed and Yvette had insulted her promptly, without even waiting for an excuse.

    我们摇摇摆摆去睡觉后不久那个俄国姑娘进来了，伊蔽特立即侮辱了她，甚至连借口也不找一个。

30. The discussions give me an excuse to talk to him, fatherly conversations I cannot have with my own father, who would like me to be a lawyer.

    讨论问题向我提供了一个同他交谈的机会，我和我父亲从未有过这样的交谈，我父亲希望我将来当律师。

31. I’m tired of listening to his excuses.

    我听厌了他的种种理由。

32. I’ll excuse you this time, but don’t be late again.

    这次我原谅你，但别再迟到了。

33. Please excuse my bad handwriting.

    请原谅，我的字写得不好。

34. Can I be excused from swimming today? I have a cold.

    我今天能不游泳吗？我感冒了。

35. He excused himself by saying he was 'forced to rob to maintain my wife and cat.'

    他辩解说自己是“为了供养妻子和猫儿被迫去抢劫的”。

36. She was excused duties on Saturday.

    星期六她不用工作。