在我这个行业里,你会听到很多关于天赋的说法,这主要是我们为了给自己找借口偷懒而编造的说辞。
In my line of work, you'll hear a lot about talent, which is an idea we mostly invented to give ourselves an excuse to be lazy.
一些石油公司为了找借口提高油价而策划谎报石油短缺,因而被起诉。
The oil companies were accused of contriving a shortage of petrol to justify price increases.
不要将上述的讨论作为借口而不考虑失败条件。
Don't take the foregoing discussion as an excuse not to think about failure conditions.
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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