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

我不想为我自己辩护或辩解。

youdao

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。

youdao

This is going to be very difficult, because all our culture, our tradition, is to compare, justify or condemn what we are.

这必然是十分困难的，因为我们所有的文化，我们的传统就是去比较，判断或谴责我们本来的样子。

youdao

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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And he maintains that arguments which lean on tradition alone are inadequate, for the same reason that tradition cannot, nowadays, justify polygamy or footbinding.

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