It is such a poor excuse for people who fear change.

对于那些害怕改变的人来说，这是一个糟糕的借口。

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That seems a poor excuse.

似乎真是个拙劣的借口。

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It sounded like a poor excuse for a job, traveling with a no-name band as their official paparazzo.

这工作听起来真不怎么样，当一支无名乐队的官方狗仔，和他们一起旅游。

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And Red Shirts say those insults are used as an excuse to deny rural voters and the poor a say in the nation's politics.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Ample punishment has already been doled out to Gupta and prison is just a poor excuse as a way to hold him up as an example to the rest of us.

FORBES: Rajat Gupta Should Walk Free

If this is indeed why the topic is so under-blogged, it may well be an unmovable reality of blogging, but it is a pretty poor excuse and we should be challenging each other to do better.

FORBES: Bloggers and Economists are Failing on Immigration

And don't expect that poor excuse for a Rebel army to do anything about it.

NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March'