But I am a novelist, not a critic, and I can excuse myself from explication de texte on that ground.

但我是个小说家，不是批评家，对于我以此为根据而说明,我可以为自己找借口。

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You know, so it's nice to kind of have an excuse to go, do all sorts of things.

所以找个借口就去了，干了很多事儿。

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But in practice, it's really easy to say this person doesn't match in there but does match up along so many dimensions.

但在现实生活中，人们总是会找这样的借口,这个人在这一方面不行，可还有很多方面适合。

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What I realized I was doing is I was constantly making excuses for not working on it.

我意识到这么做,其实是一直在为自己不努力去做找借口。

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they're setting up in advance to lose.

他们在输掉之前为自己找好借口。

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