"Because quite often the arguments that a defense deal is essential on national security grounds then that becomes justification for shielding it from public scrutiny."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.

我想，有一段时间里，这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He was responsible for writing the first justification for an armed rebellion against a legitimate monarch, the first to publish such a work in, essentially, all of Europe.

他是第一个为反对合法君主的武装叛乱,写辩护书的人，也是第一个在全欧洲将其发表的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In language both lawyerly and graphic, the attorneys gave legal justification to slap,strip,and shackle detainees.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

What is scathing about it is that Frost gives up all justification for self-interest.

讽刺的是,弗罗斯特因为个人兴趣放弃了所有的正当理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"While accepting the fact that Major Nidal Malik Hasan practiced the Islamic faith, we offer no justification for his ungodly and heinous, cowardly act of violence,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Each group needed a justification for saying how interesting the task was, but they each had a justification.

每一组都需要一个理由来说明,这个任务有多有趣，但他们各自有自己的理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I am not saying 100 percent that they are going to release her immediately, but there may be (some) sort of justification for her release by the high court."

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

And that, in and of itself is justification: ? why not feel good, if we can feel good?

这本身就是辩解理由：,如果能感觉好，为什么不感觉好呢？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

With the British soldier death rate escalating in Helmand province, the public is losing faith in the government and its justification for being in Afghanistan 7.5 years after first being deployed.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

And then there's the whole vast category of racial defense and justification of slavery.

随后有大篇幅的种族辩护,以及奴隶制合法化的阐述

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"There is no justification for the international forces to rescue their own national, and retrieve the dead body of their own soldier killed in action, and leave behind the dead body of Sultan Munadi in the area."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

The antiquity of a law alone is no justification for its usage. Aristotle seems to reject you might say Burkean conservatism long before the time.

法律的古老性不能作为其用法的借口,亚里士多德似乎事先拒绝,你可能会说柏克式的保守主义,古老与传统并不能。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Because if you are right that this would justify the taking of land in North America from Native Americans who didn't enclose it, if it's a good argument, then Locke's given us a justification for that.

因为如果你是对的,洛克此举将正义化从印第安人手中占领,他们尚未圈定的土地这一行为，如果他的观点是正确的，那么洛克给出了占领土地的正当理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

One is the insufficient justification effect, which is so famous it had a cartoon based on it.

其中一个就是理由不足效应，这是一个很著名的理论，有一个卡通就是根据它改编的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But the first key issue is that it's good in and of itself-- almost needs no justification.

但首先的关键问题是快乐本身是好的-,几乎无需辩解。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And it's true; each group needed a justification for lying about the task.

这是真的;,每一组都需要一个理由来支持他们的谎言。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So, go back to this insufficient justification effect.

说回理由不足效应。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, just to give you a sense of how cold and calculated this business was, and how in many ways the first defense or justification of slavery in America is of course it certainly is by the late Antebellum Period it is an unabashed economic defense, as we'll see.

以上只是为了让你们体会到,这种交易是如何的冷酷而精明,以及战前后期第一次,美国奴隶制度的保卫与正名之战,不管怎么看,都毫无疑问,是一场赤裸裸的利益保卫战,正如我们所见

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Antiquity or tradition alone is no justification yet at the same time he seems to recognize that changes in law even when the result : is improvement are dangerous. He writes "It is a bad thing to habituate people to reckless dissolution of laws.

作为借口，但同时,他似乎也体认到法律修改,就算结果是改善,仍是很危险的作法，他写到,“让人民习惯于鲁莽的法律,崩溃是不好的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act the state of Wisconsin enacted a Personal Liberty Law that said they were not going to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and turn in fugitive slaves, and the justification was that it was their state's right to do so.

为了抵制逃亡奴隶法,威斯康辛州政府颁布了个人自由法,规定他们不会执行,逃亡奴隶法并交出逃奴,理由是,该怎么做是他们州的权利

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选