| 词汇 | excuse |
| 释义 | excuse verb[ T ] uk /ɪkˈskjuːz/ us /ɪkˈskjuːz/ B1 to forgive someone or something: 原谅;宽恕 excuse someone for somethingPlease excuse me for arriving late - the bus was delayed.我来晚了，请原谅——公共汽车晚点了。 Nothing can excuse that sort of behaviour.无论如何那种行为都是不可原谅的。 No amount of financial recompense can excuse the way in which the company carried out its policy.这家公司竟这样执行制度，这种行为无论赔多少钱都不能宽恕。 We cannot excuse him for these crimes.我们无法原谅他犯下的这些罪行。 to allow someone not to do or attend something when they normally would have to: be excused fromI asked the teacher if I could be excused from hockey practice as my knee still hurt. excuse someone from somethingPlease excuse me from the rest of the meeting - I've just received a phone call that requires my immediate attention. You are excused—you may go. excuse me A1 a polite way of attracting someone's attention, especially someone you do not know: （用于礼貌地引起他人、尤其是陌生人的注意）劳驾，打扰 Excuse me, does this bus go to Oxford Street?打扰一下，请问这辆公共汽车去牛津大街吗？ used to politely ask someone to move so that you can walk past them: （用于礼貌地请求别人让路）借光，劳驾，对不起 Excuse me, can I just get past?劳驾，请让我过一下。 used to tell someone politely that you are leaving: （用于礼貌地辞别）抱歉，失陪 Excuse me a moment, I'll be with you shortly.抱歉，失陪一会儿，我马上就回来。 A2 used to say sorry for something you have done by accident: （用于无意做了某事后致歉）对不起 Did I take your seat? Do excuse me.我坐了你的座位吗？太对不起了。 said before disagreeing with someone: （用于表示异议）请原谅，对不起 Excuse me, but aren't you forgetting something?请原谅，但你是不是忘记了些什么？ US(UKpardon?); (I beg your pardon?) used to politely ask someone to repeat something they have said because you have not heard it: （用于没听清楚某事礼貌地请别人重复）对不起，请再说一遍 Excuse me, I didn't quite hear what you said. Please excuse my stomach rumbling - I haven't eaten all day.不好意思，我肚子在咕咕叫——我一整天都没吃东西了。 I know you are tired, but I really can't excuse you for being so rude and selfish about this. She is almost too kind - always excusing their bad behaviour instead of dealing with it firmly. Her boss cannot excuse even the smallest error, although he himself is far from perfect. Will you excuse me? I've got to make a phone call. Making & accepting apologies apologetic apologetically atone for something atonement beg bury bygone conciliatory crawl crawl back (to someone)idiom forge ahead forgive pardon penance repentance resolve your differences shred sink your differencesidiom solatium sorry to bother you You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Allowing and permitting excuse noun[ C ] uk /ɪkˈskjuːs/ us /ɪkˈskjuːs/ B1 a reason that you give to explain why you did something wrong: （辩解的）理由，借口 good excuse forHe'd better have a good excuse for being late.他迟到最好有正当的理由。 have an excuseI've never known him to miss a meeting - I'm sure he'll have an excuse.据我所知，他从来没有缺席过会议——我敢肯定他不来是有原因的。 no excuse forThere's no excuse for that sort of behaviour.根本没什么借口为那种行为开脱。 the cause of something reasonI frankly don’t understand the reason for the delay. causeInvestigators have not yet determined the cause of the fire. rootWe need to get to the root of her problems. motiveThere seems to have been no motive for the murder. ground(s)On what grounds was she dismissed? B1 a false reason that you give to explain why you do something: （虚假的）理由，借口，托词 [ + to infinitive ]She was just looking for an excuse to call him.她只是找个借口给他打电话罢了。 excuse forAny excuse for a holiday!只要能去度假，找任何借口都行！ make your excusesUK to explain why you cannot be present somewhere: 因为不能到场表示歉意 Please make my excuses at the meeting on Friday.我不能参加周五的会议了，请代我致歉。 make excuses to give false reasons why you cannot do something: 找借口;编理由 You're always making excuses for not helping me.你总是找种种借口不来帮我。 When I asked him why he was late, he gave me some excuse about having car trouble. I made up an excuse about having to look after the kids.我编造了个借口，说必须照看小孩。 I don't want to go tonight but I can't think up a good excuse.我今晚不想去，但又想不出一个好的借口。 Whenever I ask him why his essay's late, he just comes out with the same old excuses. You're always making excuses for not helping me.你总是找种种借口不来帮我。 Reasons and explanations alibi argumentation ascribe something to something ascription ascriptive case definition explanation explication exposition extenuating extenuation key reason talk talk your way out of somethingidiom unclarified warrantable warrantably wherefores Idioma miserable, poor, etc. excuse for something excuse | American Dictionaryexcuse verb[ T ] us/ɪkˈskjuz/ excuseverb[T] (FORGIVE)to forgive someone: Please excuse me for being so late – there was a lot of traffic. It was hard to excuse him for treating me so badly. excuse someone from To excuse someone from an activity is to give that person permission to stop doing it or not do it: I was excused from jury duty because I had to take care of my sick mother. excusableadjectiveus/ɪkˈskju·zə·bəl/ Considering her difficult childhood, her behavior is excusable. Idiomexcuse me excuse noun[ C ] us/ɪkˈskjus/ the explanation given for bad behavior, absence, etc.: You’re always making excuses for not helping with the housework. excuse | Business Englishexcuse noun[ C ] HR USuk /ɪkˈskjuːs/us(UKsick note) a letter from a doctor saying that someone is too ill to go to work Examples of excuseexcuse None can be considered ' revisionist ' in elucidating an apologia for colonialism or in excusing sins of commission and omission for which the colonialists bore responsibility. Because of this, worthy men are entangled in regulations, and degenerates only make excuses. She covers him with cushions, and excuses herself, apparently to get undressed. He does not pay attention to the scientific background of each expedition, but this can be excused, as he is not a historian of science. The 1639 charter excused clerks 'from all offices, unless they desire or yield themselves thereunto'; such offices would presumably have been both civic and parochial. One of their excuses is that they have to control local pollution first. They also know that those who call them untranslatable are excusing themselves from engaging in acts of interpretation. If the wet-nurse was perceived as too poor, the fee was excused. Thus, excuses are an important component to a comprehensive understanding of the blame process. The excuses, however, retain their character as individualized concessions of mercy. His rules of conduct are stripped, inter alia, of any reference to a mental element or aggravating features, as well as to the excuses. By saying that he does not concern himself with feminism he excuses himself from having to acknowledge the power-effects of his own writing. Duress is (in some cases) an excusing condition. Any one of these excuses, if true, should lead to an acquittal. Let us call the defenses so grouped the broad excuses. See all examples of excuse These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withexcuseexcuseThese are words often used in combination with excuse. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. convenient excuse This may sometimes serve as a convenientexcuse for international inaction. feeble excuse With this feeble excuse, he assumes that he is explaining the faulty passages in bluebooks and papers, passages which are vague, even incoherent. flimsy excuse That is not so terrible in itself and it is a flimsy excuse for hurting many thousands with less than that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with excuse |
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