They trotted out the same old excuses for the lack of jobs in the area.
他们又用那老一套的借口解释这个地区缺少就业机会的问题。
He trotted out an excuse for being late.
他随口编了一个迟到的借口。
He trotted out the horse for the buyer to watch.
他让那匹马跑给买主看看。
Charles trotted out his little bit of scientific nomenclature.
查尔斯炫耀他那点科学名词。
The example that is often trotted out is from Beowulf where the kenning "whale road" is used to mean the sea.
一个被反复提及的例子出现在《贝奥武甫》里，书中用“鲸鱼之路”来借代海洋。
A lot of semi-plausible excuses will be trotted out: an incomplete census, a long rainy season, the lack of voter education.
许多半真半假的借口将会出现：不完全的人口普查，长长的雨季，选民缺乏教育。
ONE of the canards of the credit crisis, trotted out regularly by politicians and pundits, is that banks have stopped lending.
关于信贷危机政客和评论家经常辟的谣是银行已经停止了放贷。
This may sound like the tired and unconvincing justifications that conglomerates, including Siemens, have long trotted out for why they have disparate businesses.
这听上去也许像是包括西门子在内的大型联合企业的陈腐而无说服力的理由，他们总是以这样的理由来说明，为何要拥有彼此毫无关联的多样业务。
This may sound like the tired and unconvincing justifications that conglomerates, including Siemens, have long trotted out for why they have disparate businesses.
这听上去也许像是包括西门子在内的大型联合企业的陈腐而无说服力的理由，他们总是以这样的理由来说明，为何要拥有彼此毫无关联的多样业务。
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