At a later date the Amazons came to lay attack on Athens on the excuse of recovering their queen.

后来，亚马孙族人借口要夺回王后派兵攻打雅典。

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By 2010, moreover, Mr Obama will no longer be able to fall back on the excuse that all of this was beyond his control.

此外，到2010年，奥巴马不能再依赖于借口如“所有这些都超出了他的控制”之类的托辞。

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Excuse me, you're wanted on the phone.

对不起，有你的电话。

《牛津词典》

"The recession must not, cannot and will not be used as an excuse for going back on our promise on aid,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

He was killed on April 1st,1865,at the Battle of Five Oaks excuse me, at Five Forks, just west of Richmond, the last major engagement of the Civil War.

他最终死于1865年4月1日的五橡树战役,不好意思,是五岔口战役,就在里士满的西面,内战最后一场主要的会战

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He couldn't avoid that in this phase of making of his thought of that movie called Chimes at Midnight, that he couldn't go on with the excuse that his make-up kit was lost.

他不能在,为电影《午夜钟声》,练习台词时继续用,化妆箱不见了的托辞。

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So the drive to get carbon emissions down appears to be on (excuse the pun) the back burner.

BBC: Burning issues for the world's future

But oh, the things she's seen on my end: the excuse-making, the nightgown under the trench coat to drive the car pool, the panic every time I see a gray hair--and that's just the small stuff.

CNN: Washington Diary: Should a Mom Rat on Her Daughter?

If the head of government underreacts when the country is threatened, history is not likely to excuse him on the grounds that his excessive caution enjoyed bipartisan support.

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