"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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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