| 词汇 | example_english_excuse |
| 释义 | Examples of excuseThese 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. 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. You construct very elaborate excuses for your action. To recur to our rejection of the excusing rationale for methodolog ical passivity. Syncretism would have entailed making these 'traditional ' excuses into new rules-in-the-making, available to resist kin demands for merchandise on credit. We would simply dismiss their excuses as resting upon false premisses. Possible excuses include hospitalization, vacation, and spirometer device mechanical or transmission problems. In acknowledging the possibility of excuses, one is acknowledging the possibility of blameless wrongdoing. Participants would be excused from the study if this criterion was not reached within 24 trials. From national security to family harmony, we find many excuses for not being truthful or accountable for our actions. The reasons clinicians offer for undertreating pain do not, individually or collectively, constitute excuses for allowing patients to suffer unnecessarily. What accounts for the similarity in behavior and excuses of emergency room personnel at other hospitals? Dependency is also assumed or excused by many elderly people themselves. The interview assessed the following core dimensions: self-blaming cognition, self-directed excuses, self-blaming affect, other-blaming, and other-directed excuses. In contrast, excuses are ex post, individualized exonerating factors that indicate that the wrongdoer was not responsible. None the less, he anticipated that some of his particular claims might be challenged, and excuses himself in advance for any possible errors of fact. After one subject had left the area, the next would be excused. A person who is excused, by contrast, has no such claim. The writer was not condemning the order per se, only asking to be excused. Because of their unusual or deprived childhood, their gossiping or criminal behaviour needs to be excused. All is excused, in the end, thanks to his overall good nature and goodwill. Individuals who fail the screening test but do not make any mistakes on the diagnostic plates could be excused from the practical test. A single lapse in conformity can be repaired or excused with negligible consequences for the system of domination. In other desertion cases the judge excused the mariner because of ambiguity in the master's orders. One may suppose that invoking this exaptation excuses one from an adaptationist position, but it does not. Perhaps in games some failures to maximize utility are excused. Nearly all acknowledge that impediments may provide good excuses for failing to meet it; the principle governs ideal cases. He resorted to innumerable excuses and downright refusal when one of her successors tried to involve him in annual ceremonies at her grave-side. In some cases, biographers admit an aversion to the topic, and thus his gluttony and obesity are denied, excused or ignored. We live in a world where every crime a nation can commit is excused by false claims to democracy. Ignorance or lack of control in very young children (under five, generally) often excused culturally inappropriate questions or claims. My general position is that compulsion excuses only when it subverts one or more of the three conditions (freedom, epistemic, or authenticity) required for responsibility. Endorsement organizations signal ideological preferences on a handful of issues but can be excused from pronouncing themselves on others. A participant could be excused a sense of unreal occasion. The world as it is, in brief, is ' fallen ', and needs to be redeemed - which is not the same as saying it needs to be excused or even justified. Start with the premise that one cannot be excused from a promise "because coerced into it" unless the promise was the product of some sort of defect of voluntariness. Although the target article lists many excuses for them, respondents who see both statements and still assert that the latter is more probable than the former display faulty reasoning. In other cases, anti-adaptationists committed the naturalistic fallacy and thought that adaptationists were excusing certain undesirable patterns of behavior when they claimed those behaviors were adaptations. Presumably, vitiating a blame attribution through excuses will also avoid the negative affective sequelae of blame attributions and result in less self- or other-directed negative affect. However, because the book is so overtly polemical, this reviewer may perhaps be excused for suggesting that its analytical techniques cannot bear the weight of its conclusions. Such error excuses every sin. In short, the accused becomes a victim who gains our sympathy and is in fact already forgiven or excused for his possibly criminal or illegal behaviour. Considering their reluctance to reveal the pregnancy to people involved in these situations, the woman has the additional stress of creating excuses and deceptions at rather short notice. They therefore have no excuses to make. The usual bureaucratic excuses were trotted out, along the lines that this was necessary for pensions eligibility, and after a short, lively debate, ' age ' was erased from the list. Not surprisingly, he readily found excuses to do something else and exercised only sporadically, if at all, until he began listening to favorite pieces of chamber music while exercising. Both can reinforce illness behaviour by over-prescribing rest, encouraging medication use, giving misleading interpretations of symptoms, and endorsing a sick role by excusing school or providing sickness certification. A series of dodges and excuses continued. When everything unexpectedly and spectacularly fell apart, there were some feeble excuses and recriminations from the two principal actors in the drama that were part comedy and part tragedy. Participants would have been excused from the study if this criterion were not reached within 24 trials, but all participants passed the sequencing training in less than 15 trials. Extraordinary danger excuses extraordinary means. To be sure, both are free of blame, but only one of them (the police officer) is justified, whereas the other (the victim) is merely excused. The problem with this account is that the excusing effects of provocation and duress can also be explained in terms of their undermining a person's responsibility for his acts. When they obtain the certificate they are excused from any further payment beyond the payment for which the certificate provides. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We agree that excuses are made in some cases, but there are genuine grievances about sick pay and superannuation in the transport service. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The result of excusing the best-off is that hills for the rest of us are necessarily higher. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As unemployment began to rise, so did the excuses, and the more unemployment rose, the more tortuous and facile the excuses became. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he realise that this is felt very strongly by the ordinary motorist, because different excuses are being given? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When are we going to see some action, instead of excuses? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot allow any excuses to be made for them and their ilk—and there can be no hiding place, either. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One could go around the country finding excuses for differential price reviews all over the place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that will perhaps curtail the activities of these anonymous departmental spokesmen who make some of these excuses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am quite prepared to listen to all the excuses that are made on behalf of magistrates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that his explanations, and even excuses, show nothing approaching that satisfaction which was promised four years ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has given us some excuses for the policy not being pursued, but no reasons. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think a good deal more time would be wasted in checking excuses and finding out whether certain things did or did not happen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There have been arrangements with the town council about roadways and tramways, and all those things are excuses for delay. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that we can get rid of some of the bogus excuses for non-employment or lack of promotion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Excusing the flippancy, there is nothing very much any of us can do. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The old age pensioner, who has as his income a pension plus his supplementation, will be automatically excused charges of this kind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such pluralism as did occur was excused on grounds of the poverty of one or both livings. By doing so, adults are excused from judgment, blame, and responsibility. We have work to do to establish the conditions under which we might justify using medical excuses or other deceptive practices. Clearly, then, such rumors provided excuses for some young wives of military men to stray from their marriages. They make all sorts of excuses, so it's very, very hard. While excuses are accounts that reject individual responsibility for a socially unacceptable act, justifications acknowledge individual responsibility but deny the negative consequences of the act. He made no excuses or explanations and indeed these would have been unnecessary. Is he merely excused as opposed to fully justified? She might say that he is merely excused. Moreover, the rebuttal excuses often provided by the blackballed candidates made voters even more cynical about the politicians and the political process in general. Besides the usual sorts of prefabricated excuses why this is so (so many composers, so little available broadcast time), one speculates about further reasons. The reader may be excused for sensing that all of this has a whiff of allegory to it. The truth, however, is that not one of these very common excuses is reasonable. Moreover, measuring the extent of a person's desert of punishment requires addressing difficult epistemological questions about excusing and mitigating circumstances. Sandwiched between two traps- being soft on crime and excusing riot-related violence-liberals had to forgo their ideal outcomes and moved closer to the conservative position. 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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