藉口

The disease of simony has infected many nuns to such an extent that they admit scarcely any as sisters without a payment, wishing to cover this vice with the pretext of poverty.

该疾病感染的西摩尼许多修女到这样的程度，他们承认，几乎没有任何作为姐妹付款，希望弥补这一副主席的藉口贫困。

Go therefore, half this day as friend with friend Converse with Adam, in what Bowre or shade [ 230 ] Thou find'st him from the heat of Noon retir'd, To respit his day-labour with repast, Or with repose; and such discourse bring on, As may advise him of his happie state, Happiness in his power left free to will, [ 235 ] Left to his own free Will, his Will though free, Yet mutable; whence warne him to beware He swerve not too secure: tell him withall His danger, and from whom, what enemie Late falln himself from Heav'n, is plotting now [ 240 ] The fall of others from like state of bliss; By violence, no, for that shall be withstood, But by deceit and lies; this let him know, Lest wilfully transgressing he pretend Surprisal, unadmonisht, unforewarnd.

你们去，用半天工夫，像跟老朋友一样，和亚当交谈，在他的幽栖处，或在树荫下，在他午休的时候找他。在谈话中要启发他是正享受着幸福，他的幸福是享受意志的自由，他的意志虽然是自由的，但不够坚定；警戒他，不要太大意，陷入邪道；告诉他，他的危险因谁而来，现在有怎样的敌人从天而降，阴谋拉别人下水，和他一样从幸福的境地坠落下去。不，他用暴力，因为那是容易防范的；他用的是欺骗和谎言。这一点要说清楚，让他知道，免得他犯了天条而藉口没有预先警告，未加防范。

Governments that temporize and seek intricate diplomatic excuses to look the other way,as they did when Iraq used chemical weapons because they feared Iran would win,are not only flouting morality.

某些政府因恐伊朗获胜，当伊拉克使用化学武器时，因循迁就，并找寻错综复杂的外交藉口而不予理会。

It's not due to my illness, my sorrow, my unstableness or any what but simply because of hopeless toward love and human being.

不是因为我的病、我的忧伤、我的不安於室或者任何藉口，只是单纯地对於爱情以及人类感到绝望。

All which things are sufficient to convince men, and leave them without excuse.

所有这件事都是足以说服官兵，并让他们没有藉口。

The aping Christianity of Blue Masonry made it simply an emasculated and impotent society with large and sounding pretences and slender performances.

基督教的模仿蓝砌体了它只是一个阉割和社会的无能与大和探空藉口和细长表演。

The Pharisees saw in them only fresh ground for caviling.

在这些话中，法利赛人只找出了又一次强辩的新藉口。

If you say that someone is copping out , you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.

逃避的方法；藉口逃避，回避

Because of different findable, self-cheating excuses, I have been absent from the hall of writers with at least one single completed essay of each, whatever the essay written by real pen and paper or keyboard I'm clicking now.

由於各种各样可以找得出来的、自欺欺人的藉口，我已经很久没有动笔写哪怕一篇基於自主意志的、完整的文字，无论是用真正的纸和笔，还是利用现在正在敲击的键盘。

Now you can't say you don't have space for a treadmill; Foldable Treadmills have made that excuse redundant.

现在，你不能说你没有空间跑步机，折叠式跑步机所说的，藉口是多余的。

On closer examination, though, this is not a vote for multilateralism but just the opposite.

仔细审视后我们发现，这并非是对多边主义投出的赞成票，而是恰好相反。

Uncovering their weak spots, so I can defeat them.

揭露出他们的弱点，这样我就可以打败他们了。