To understand these motives is not to condone them.

理解这些动机不是为了谴责他们。

youdao

Yes, I do believe it's theft but perhaps it is necessary to condone that theft.

我确实认为这是盗窃，但也许我们有必要容忍它。

youdao

That is not necessarily to condone China's policies, or to deny Armenian history.

这并不一定是纵容中国的政策，或拒绝亚美尼亚人的历史。

youdao

Yes, I do believe it's theft but perhaps it is necessary to condone that theft.

我确实认为这是盗窃,但也许我们有必要容忍它。

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Now, I think in certain circumstances it becomes necessary to overlook that unjustness, perhaps condone that injustice as in the case of the cabin boy being killed for food.

我认为在某些情况下,我们需要忽视这种不公平，容忍这种不正义,例如在救生艇里被当作食物的男孩。

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Chinese officials appeared to condone the xenophobic outcry triggered by Western criticism of the clampdown.

ECONOMIST: Tibet

At the time Volkswagen said the "highly stylised and choreographed" adverts were not intended to condone violence.

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America, which for seven years has called the Taliban al-Qaeda's cousins, may find this harder to condone.

ECONOMIST: Afghanistan