They wanted a pretext for subduing the region by force.
他们需要一个用武力征服那个地区的托词。
The incident was used as a pretext for intervention in the area.
这次事件成了干涉那个地区的借口。
This provided a pretext for the authorities to cancel the elections.
这给当局提供了一个取消选举的借口。
As Rosenblatt notes, criticism of Black writing has often served as a pretext for expounding on Black history.
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。
He used his sore throat as a pretext for not going to shool.
他假托喉痛不到校上课。
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
暴君总有他暴行的借口。
We'll have to find a pretext for not going to the party.
我们不去参加聚会得找个借口才是。
This was designed to provide a pretext for their intervention.
这样做的目的不过是为他们的干涉寻找借口。
Friends, is only a pretext for self-inflicted and consolation.
做朋友，只是一种自找的借口和慰藉。
This was designed to provide a pretext for direct intervention.
他们企图以此为借口直接进行干预。
Any provocation could easily become a pretext for renewed conflict.
任何挑衅都很容易成为冲突升级的借口。
The child used his sore finger as a pretext for not going to school.
那小孩以手指疼痛发炎作为不去上学的理由。
Perhaps it really did fear that the aid effort might provide a pretext for invasion.
也许他们真的害怕援助会变成入侵的前奏。
As servants of God live as free people yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
你们虽是自由的，却不可借着自由遮盖恶毒，总要作神的仆人。
But I can not become a "poisoning" a pretext for young people, even if the reason is so full.
但是这不能成为我“毒害”青少年的借口，即使理由是那么的充分。
When in high school, to tell the truth, I liked blackout, for I could find a pretext for me to stop study.
当我在中学的时候，实话实说，我喜欢停电，因为我可以为自己不学习借口。
The far wiser policy would have been to hang back and make it harder for Putin to find a pretext for invasion.
更明智的对策是踌躇不定，让普金没法找到入侵的借口。
Sculpture becomes a pretext for performance, performance is in itself painting and then painting becomes photography.
雕塑成为表现的借口，表现本身则是绘画，而绘画成为摄影。
The other woman or the other man merely serves as a pretext for dissolving a marriage that had already lost its essential integrity.
另外那个女人，或者另外那个男人，无非是作为借口，用来解除早就不是完好无损的婚姻罢了。
The other woman or the other man merely serves as a pretext for dissolving a marriage that had already lost its essential integrity.
第三者无非是作为借口，用来解除早就不是完好无损的婚姻罢了。
The other woman or the other man merely serves as a pretext for dissolving or a marriage that had already lost its essential integrity.
另外那个女人，或者另外那个男人，无非是作为借口，用来解除早就不是完好无损的婚姻罢了。
The other woman or the other man merely serves as a pretext for dissolving or a marriage that had already lost its essential integrity.
小三仅仅是那些本就不牢固的婚姻破灭的一个借口。
Translation (if I got it correct) – Friends accept the fact that this is not your country does not recognize a pretext for national progress.
朋友接受事实，这不是你们国家不承认一个国家进步的借口。
Translation (if I got it correct) – Friends accept the fact that this is not your country does not recognize a pretext for national progress.
朋友接受事实，这不是你们国家不承认一个国家进步的借口。
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