A complication, that's what you're calling it?

复杂的状况，这就是你的托词？

Legal are the best sort, of course, because he can make those totally incomprehensible.

法律是最好的托词，他使其听起来玄乎其玄。

He's been thinking it through and decided Dementors would make a very nice little cover story very nice indeed.

他可真是煞费苦心啊，发现摄魂怪可以成为一个绝妙的托词，确实绝妙。

And even many unqualified investors succeed in moving money in and out (although not without delay, subterfuge and inconvenience).

就连许多不合格的投资者还是成功地将资本倒进倒出（尽管不乏延误、托词和不便）。

And there's no excuse either. I'm in it now.

当没有借口托词 我身在其中。

Look, before you go and use whatever line you've prepared, think hard.

听着 在你开始那些早有准备的托词前，先仔细想想吧。

Some of the claims are bonkers-that he wants to use the virus as a pretext to microchip everyone in the world.

有一些控诉愚蠢透顶——说他想要利用病毒作为托词，在全世界每个人身上都植入微型芯片。

So late-night work email may not be the only thing ticking you off—the blue glow of your machine may also be getting you down.

所以深夜工作的电子邮件可能不是唯一斥责你业绩不佳的托词，你的机器闪烁的蓝色光让你感到失望。

For all the pretence of due legal process and distaste at Ms Yingluck's nepotism, this was not an offence that merited the ousting of a prime minister.

所有对于相应法定程序的托词以及英拉裙带关系的愤恨都不足以成为剥夺一国总理的理由。

So today we've been hearing advice on how to deal with online conspiracy theories, some of which are totally bonkers, silly, stupid and crazy, or involve a complicated pretext, a pretend reason used to hide someone's true motivation.

所以今天我们一直在听取有关如何应对网络阴谋论的建议，其中有一些阴谋论完全就是愚蠢至极——愚蠢且疯狂——或者设计一个复杂的托词——用来掩盖某人真实动机的假理由。

He did not even understand the meaning of the subterfuge. Dr. Alirio Noguera had arrived in Macondo a few yearsbefore with a medicine chest of tasteless pills and a medical motto that convinced no one: One nail draws another.

他甚至不明白托词的含义。几年前，阿里里奥·诺格拉 (Alirio Noguera) 生带着一箱无味的药片和一句无人能信服的学格言来到马孔多：一颗钉子吸引另一颗钉子。