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Secular man may be anxious, but he is also convinced that anxiety can be explained away.

凡人可能会有种种担忧，但是他也坚信这种焦虑担忧总会消逝。

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THE failure of the American economy to achieve meaningful liftoff is too easily explained away by special factors.

对于美国经济试图实现腾飞的努力失败的原因，我们很容易找些理由来敷衍。

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While this problem won't go away soon, the Times piece suggests how it will be explained away.

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Her outrageous spending, life-decisions and general behavior can be explained away by one thing, and one thing only: certified celebrity.

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So the Canadians, offspring of the British parliamentary tradition, have to be explained away as closet southerners clinging to the border.

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