他们的关系、工作或其他情况很糟糕，并且他们对此不断抱怨，但却总找某个借口拒绝一切提出的解决方案。

Something is terrible about their relationship, job, or other situation, and they moan about it ceaselessly, but find some excuse to dismiss any solution that's proposed.

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任何小组成员都不得以缺乏经验为借口，拒绝从事项目的任何部分，或这个项目所使用的产品和技术。

No team member can refuse to work on any part of the project, or with any product or technology used by the project, citing lack of experience.

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他们说，一些自鸣得意的教育人士和官僚们长久以来以“贫困”为借口，拒绝相信“穷学生可以学得好”。

For too long, they said, poverty had been used as an excuse by complacent educators and bureaucrats who refused to believe that poor students could achieve at high levels.

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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。

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