我静静地站着，努力想编出一个听上去可信的借口。

I stood still, trying to invent a plausible excuse.

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我不得不承认，它听上去像是个让人难以置信的借口。

I had to admit it sounded like an implausible excuse.

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我当时正打算用什么借口，让人把他从房子里叫出去。

I was going to have him called away from the house on some pretext or other.

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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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If I had had a clean interface, that I had a specific method to get those values out, I wouldn't have to change anything.

如果之前我创建了，一个清楚的借口,也就是我有特定的，取得这些值的方法的话。

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Don't remember is a good reply if you're auditioning to be the Attorney General, but it's not such a good reply. Anybody?

如果你是司法部长的话,我忘了是一个很不错的借口,可惜这里不是这样的,谁来回答

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