What's your excuse this time? - No excuse.

你又有什么了 -没。

By now I can no longer invoke that excuse.

现在我不能再用这个了。

Find yourself making excuses not to perform simple spells?

您发现自己在寻找不表演简单的魔法吗？

Don't always use a headache as a pretext for not going to school!

不头痛为不上学！

Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term “downshifting” has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality.

奇怪的是，大约两年半的时间我写完两部小说后，我这个被美国人称为“放慢生活节奏”的试验，却使我掉牙的变成了现实。

Heavily armed police raiding the homes of unarmed, non-violent suspects on the flimsiest of pretexts, and behaving more like an occupying army in hostile territory than guardians of public safety.

全副武装的警察不糊不清的闯进手无寸铁的嫌疑犯家里，这些警察更像是在敌军土壤上驻扎的军队，而不是公共安全的监护人。

I thought it wise to provide a credible pretext for our meeting.

我觉得有一个可信的会会比较好。

You're trying to justify your own weakness.

你只是在为自己的软弱寻找。

Too many seem to think that good intentions excuse away harmful outcomes.

许多人认为善意可成为恶果的。

You can rationalize it however you like.

你想怎么找都随你。

We have run out of excuses and we are running out of time.

我们的已经用完了，我们的时间也已经用完了。

Foreign policy is always an excuse for trouble in domestic policy.

外交政策永远都是内政出问题的。

Being bad at maths should no longer be seen as " badge of honor" or down to genetics, according to National Numeracy, a new organization which aims to challenge the nation's negative view of the subject.

据新近成立的英国国家数学能力中心称，数学不好，不应再被看作是" 荣誉徽章" ，也不应再从祖先的基因遗传上找。他们旨在改变全国大众对数学的负看法。

Hermione allowed Travers to step ahead of her on the pretext of explaining features of the hall to Ron.

赫敏给罗恩讲解银行大厅里怎么办公，让特莱维尔走在自己前。

I'll have to contrive a reason to get into his office.

我得找个进入他的办公室。

No excuse for that. No excuse for that.

没有。没得理由说那些话。

Ukraine says they are trying to create a pretext for a Russian invasion.

乌克兰表示，他们试图为俄罗斯入侵找。

You know he had every excuse to be curled up in the corner in the fetal position, feeling sorry for himself, but he never did.

你知道他有各种各样的蜷缩在角落里，像胎儿一样，为自己感到难过，但他从来没有这样做过。

But none of these reasons is an excuse for allowing the intolerance to continue.

但是上这些理由都不能成为允许偏狭继续存在的。

I bailed. I made an excuse and left.

我逃了 我找了个就跑了。