It is such a poor excuse for people who fear change.

对于那些害怕改变的人来说，这是一个糟糕的借口。

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That seems a poor excuse.

似乎真是个拙劣的借口。

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His explanations were merely poor excuse.

他的解释只不过是一个蹩脚的借口。

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And Red Shirts say those insults are used as an excuse to deny rural voters and the poor a say in the nation's politics.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

And don't expect that poor excuse for a Rebel army to do anything about it.

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Jerry Brown is a poor excuse for the future of America, as he too would make our suffering border states even worse.

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Ample punishment has already been doled out to Gupta and prison is just a poor excuse as a way to hold him up as an example to the rest of us.

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