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。

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，他会使其听起来玄乎其玄。

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芒也会让你感到失望。

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).

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

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 (Alirio Noguera) 生带着一箱无味的药片和一句无人能信服的学言来到马孔多：一颗钉子吸引另一颗钉子。

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。

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

当然也没有借口托词 我身在其中。

33.So you'd better have a good excuse for missing the ceremony this morning.

因此, 你最好准备一个好的托词-因为缺席今天早上那个仪式。

Oh, is that what you're calling it?

这就是你的托词吗？

So, more and more I think about political projects as pretextual, because the contradictions so often reveal themselves.

因此， 我越来越倾向于将政治项目视为具有托词性质，因为这些矛盾往往不请自来地显露出来。

He started putting the pieces together, a shifting alibi, an off-the-grid cell phone, and two gas cans.

他开始拼凑线索：不断变化的托词、不在服务区的手机，还有两个汽油桶。

So what's the DOJ's excuse here?

那么，司法部在此有何托词呢？