1·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。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·The government recognized there were problems in urban areas but these could never be an excuse for lawless behaviour.
政府认识到市区存在问题，但是这绝不能成为非法行为的借口。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Get back to peel these potatoes, and don't ever use that as an excuse for anything again!
回去削土豆皮，别再拿这个当借口了！
4·Have we ever examined ourselves and asked whether we did our best or went all out when we looked for an excuse for our failure?
当我们为失败寻找借口时，我们是否审视过自己，问过自己是尽力还是全力以赴了？
5·That's no excuse for not tidying up Benny.
那不是不收拾本尼的借口。
6·Don't look for an excuse for your mistakes.
不要为自己的错误找理由。
7·It is such a poor excuse for people who fear change.
对于那些害怕改变的人来说，这是一个糟糕的借口。
8·None of these reasons is an excuse for allowing the intolerance to continue.
这些理由都不能成为允许这种偏狭继续下去的借口。
9·Because they fall, they would find a good excuse for themselves that they're not fit for it.
因为他们失败了，他们会为自己找一个很好的借口说他们不适合做这件事。
10·In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.
换句话说，结构性失业是一个伪命题，它主要是为不寻求真正的解决方案找借口。
1·That's no excuse for not tidying up Benny.
那不是不收拾本尼的借口。
2·Julia: Just another excuse for you to stay at home.
朱莉娅：这不过是你想呆在家里的又一个借口罢了。
3·One good excuse for serving schnapps, vodka, and beer at the event: Swedes believe alcohol aids in digesting the fatty fish.
鳗鱼是在活动中上杜松子酒、伏特加和啤酒的一个好借口：瑞典人认为烈性酒有助于消化多脂的鱼。
4·Given that a safer (and possibly faster) idiom exists for this - map-reduce - there's no excuse for writing such unsafe code, even if it seems safe "in this case."
如果存在一种针对此情形的更安全(且可能更快)的语言风格(映射-减法)，则没有借口编写这样的不安全代码，即使它“在此情形下”看起来是安全的。
5·There's no excuse for this, there's really no reason why a person should betray their love's trust like that, but people do.
这个是没有借口的，你真的找不到理由为什么一个人会那样去背叛他们的情人，但人们确实是这样做了。
1·No excuse for me none - What will mother and father live on now?
我不能原谅自己——不能！现在爹妈怎么过呀？
2·While the lack of service you experienced is unusual and not the standard of our motel, there is no excuse for a lackadaisical attitude on the part of any of our employees.
尽管您所遇到的这种服务欠缺是不寻常的而且也不是我们酒店的标准模式，但是依然没有理由原谅我们部分雇员的那种懒散态度。
3·Theres no excuse for that.
不能原谅这事。