贾尔斯先生以不知情作为他的借口。
这次事件成了干涉那个地区的借口。
The incident was used as a pretext for intervention in the area.
别让他再以任何借口哄骗你了。
这给当局提供了一个取消选举的借口。
This provided a pretext for the authorities to cancel the elections.
他用一些假的借口打电话，她根本就不信。
He'd telephoned with some phony excuse she didn't believe for a minute.
他总是找借口逃避如婚礼这样的家庭聚会。
He makes excuses to chicken out of family occasions such as weddings.
他一吃完就借口离开了。
他编造了数不清的借口，说了无止尽的谎言。
她很善于找借口。
她怜悯地看了他一眼，这类借口是她父亲会用的。
She gave him a pitying look; that was the sort of excuse her father would use.
我静静地站着，努力想编出一个听上去可信的借口。
我当时正打算用什么借口，让人把他从房子里叫出去。
I was going to have him called away from the house on some pretext or other.
他说要给妻子过生日，利用这个借口，就不去参加会议了。
He used his wife's birthday as a convenient excuse for not going to the meeting.
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。
The government recognized there were problems in urban areas but these could never be an excuse for lawless behaviour.
即使到现在，我们也不能确定这些激进分子不会找到某个新的借口在下一年冬天号召一场罢工。
Even now we could not be sure that the militants would not find some new excuse to call a strike the following winter.
那不是不收拾本尼的借口。
她想找个借口，说她找不到去那儿的路。
She tried to excuse herself by saying that she would not be able to find the way thither.
我开始厌倦里奥的借口了。
我们必须坦诚自己的行为，避免找借口。
上周末，里奥给出了迄今为止最差劲的借口。
房东通常不退还租户的押金，借口是租户损坏了房子。
Very often landlords don't return tenants' deposits on the pretext that tenants have done damage to the house.
我猜他忘了他在我家给老板打电话时也用了同样的借口。
I guess he'd forgotten he used the same excuse when he called his boss from my house.
事实上，最有可能成为长期找借口的人是那些沉迷于成功的人。
In fact, the people most likely to become chronic excuse makers are those obsessed with success.
被发现在您的课堂上做其他事情，我知道找借口是没有意义的。
Having been caught doing other things in your class, I know any excuse may be meaningless.
当然，人们不能对此表示赞赏，但人们确实觉得这只是多了一点借口。
One cannot commend this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more excuse.
威利回忆起在年初，当克里斯被叫去读书时，他常常找借口去洗手间。
Whaley recalls how at the beginning of the year, when called upon to read, Chris would excuse himself to go to the bathroom.
你可能感觉良好，可能像个赛车冠军，不过没有任何借口能解释破掉的尾灯。
You may feel good, and may be like a racing champion, but there is no excuse to explain the broken taillights.
慧利会想起年初的时候，每当被叫起来念书，克里斯就会各种找借口上厕所。
Whaley recalls how at the beginning of the year, when recalled upon to read, Chris would excuse himself to go to the bathroom.
正如罗森布拉特所指出的，对黑人作品的批评常常被用作阐述黑人历史的借口。
As Rosenblatt notes, criticism of Black writing has often served as a pretext for expounding on Black history.
他无法避免在这个阶段发表他对电影的看法，他不能再以他的化妆箱丢了为借口。
He couldn't avoid that in this phase of the making of his thought of that movie, that he couldn't go on with the excuse that his make-up kit was lost.
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