I'm not going to try and justify or excuse myself.

我不想为我自己辩护或辩解。

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When you compare yourself with others, it is to justify or condemn what you do, and then you are not thinking at all.

当你把自己与他人相比较时，只是在证实或者指责你做的事情，那样的话，你就根本不思考了。

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With one exception, he said there was no military objective or advantage that could justify the attacks.

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Milton has to justify or at least understand this seemingly incomprehensible and unjustifiable event. It's this drive to theodicy that accounts for the poem's most painful moments.

弥尔顿要解释，至少要理解,这看起来不可理喻，无法解释的事件,这首诗最悲痛之处正是源于这斯奥迪斯的动力。

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Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable.

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All CG does is cost you a valuable card and put a few conditions on the opponent that are either easy to justify or that can be ignored, especially as a game goes on.

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As a result, recent products like the sleek iPod nano and the bantam Palm z22 are small enough to fit in your pocket with your mobile phone (or justify their small existence in a second pocket or purse).

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