| 词汇 | collocation_english_excuse |
| 释义 | Collocations with excuseThese 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 convenient excuse 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 lame excuse However, that is no doubt a lame excuse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 legitimate excuse It has a perfectly legitimate excuse for not declaring dividends, namely, that it is absorbing every penny of its profits into its business. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 perfect excuse Fortunately a sickly constitution provided a perfect excuse to remain in the library rather than enter the courtroom. reasonable excuse Home supervision appeared to be least successful in respect of children referred for non-attendance at school without reasonable excuse. valid excuse Lack of editorial support (the book was typeset by the author) may be an explanation, but it is not a valid 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. |
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