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借口的英文：
excuse
pretext

參考例句：
Make an excuse;give an excuse
編借口Make an excuse for;give an excuse for
找借口Invent an excuse
捏造借口Idle folks lack no excuses.
懶漢借口多。The Government pleaded ignorance.
政府借口不知情。Destiny: A tyrant"s authority for crime and a fool"s excuse for failure.
命運：暴君施虐的權利，傻瓜失敗的借口。Mr Giles pleads ignorance as his excuse.
賈爾斯先生把不知情當作自己的借口。Every position has been successfully undermined and abandoned on specious and plausible excuses
我提出的每一個立場都被他們成功地以似是而非的借口破壞和推翻。Ignorance of the law excuse no man- from practicing it.
誰也不能以不知法為借口而得到原諒——當律師的格外不行。He"s so impossibly long - winded.You need to be as patient as Job to listen to him without making some excuse to leave.
他的講話真是又長又臭。你需要有約伯一樣的耐心才能聽下去而不致找借口離開。

excuse是什么意思：
v. 原諒；辯解；準許...離去
n. 辯解；借口；理由；原諒，饒恕
He made belated excuses.
他作了為時已晚的道歉。 Idle folks lack no excuses.
懶漢借口多。He is great at finding excuses.
他可真會找借口。 Ignorance of the law excuses no man
對法律不知不能免罪The situations allow of no excuse.
形勢刻不容緩。

pretext是什么意思：
n. 借口，托辭
v. 以…為借口
There is no sense in fastening on that pretext of yours.
一味強調你那個借口是沒有用處的。Negotiating in bad faith under the pretext of concluding a contract.
假借訂立合同，惡意進行磋商。He remained home on the pretext of being sick.
他以生病為借口留在家里。The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
暴君總有他暴行的借口。He pretexted an early engagement in town the next morning.
他借口明天早晨在城里有約會。