另一个促使人们倾向于否定本性难移假设的因素是，这一概念经常被滥用，被当作大多数不人道行为的挡箭牌。
Another factor contributing to the tendency to deny the assumption of a fixed human nature was that the concept has so often been abused as a shield behind which the most inhuman acts are committed.
格林斯潘把预测的困难当作主要挡箭牌。
The difficulties of forecasting served as a key defense for Mr. Greenspan.
我把它推开，赶忙拉过一张桌子作挡箭牌。
I flung her back, and hastened to interpose the table between us.
他没病，这只是遁词；控股公司只是一个挡箭牌。
He wasn't sick — it was just a subterfuge; the holding company was just a blind.
我手里拿着一个文件夹，预备着必要时拿来当挡箭牌。
I kept a binder in my hands, ready to use it as a shield if necessary.
教室立刻安静下来，英雄好汉们忙拿出“挡箭牌”——书。
Classroom immediately quiet down and come up with the heroic men were busy "shield" - book.
说来很遗憾，这些事实对那些以杀植物论点为挡箭牌的吃肉的人不起什么作用。
Sad to say, these facts make little or no impression on the flesh-eaters who seek refuge in the plant-killing argument.
人们怀疑索马里海盗将这个法国女俘虏作为抵制美国对不断增大的青年党发动攻击的挡箭牌。
That raises suspicions that she is being used as a shield against American drone attacks on the Shabab, which have increased.
但是，仅仅因为您无法进行精确、详细和长期的预测，并不能作为逃避回答这三个问题的挡箭牌。
Just because you can't make accurate, detailed, long-term predictions, though, doesn't give you a free pass not to answer the three questions.
这个理论建议公司运用股票期权带来的税收利益从而减少负债，因为税收利益可充当债务的挡箭牌。
Theory suggests that firms with tax benefits from the exercise of stock options should carry less debt since tax benefits are a non-debt tax shield.
自省确实重要，但我们会拿它用来作为试验真相的挡箭牌；思考我们是谁没有探索我们是否真正是想象中的自己来的重要。
Reflection is important. But we can use it as a defense against testing reality; reflecting on who we are is less important than probing whether we really are who we think we are.
低密度社区Nimbyish的居民可以拿规划法规做挡箭牌为所欲为，从要求亮度水平到停车空间再到阻止一切建设。
Nimbyish residents of low-density districts can exploit planning rules on everything from light levels to parking spaces to block plans for construction.
既便如此，虽然许多年轻点的妇女在她们寻找买家的时候把她们的祖母都搬了出来当挡箭牌，但是年龄还是被限制在四十岁以上。
Still, women must be at least 40, although many who are younger install their grandmothers as window-dressing in market stalls while they seek out buyers, Ishimaru said.
婴儿潮也不是卫生保健系统成本高涨的主因。但由于婴儿潮这代人人口众多，且日渐步入老龄，所以总被拿来作为卫生保健系统成本高涨的挡箭牌。
Nor are baby-boomers, though they are often blamed for health-care inflation because there are a lot of them and they are getting old.
婴儿潮也不是卫生保健系统成本高涨的主因。但由于婴儿潮这代人人口众多，且日渐步入老龄，所以总被拿来作为卫生保健系统成本高涨的挡箭牌。
Nor are baby-boomers, though they are often blamed for health-care inflation because there are a lot of them and they are getting old.
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