| EXAMPLE SENTENCES | ||
|---|---|---|
他的托词只是缓兵之计。 What he said is just to delay the time. | ||
那种托词根本不能令我信服。 That excuse simply won't wash with me. | ||
有这么多托词，还是静观其变吧。 With so many ifs and buts , it is easier to wait and see. | ||
你不能老拿腰疼当托词呀。 You can't keep using your bad back as an excuse. | ||
她一边走一边默诵着她迟到的托词。 She walked along rehearsing her excuse for being late. | ||
他们需要一个用武力征服那个地区的托词。 They wanted a pretext for subduing the region by force. | ||
用五花八门的托词让大事化小小事化了无助于项目团队或项目经理取得成功。 Minimizing problems and hiding issues with colorful explanations doesn't help the project team or the project manager succeed. | ||
帕特尔先生给那个大学打了电话要个解释，得到的是贯用的难以令人信服的托词。 Mr. Patel phoned the university for an explanation, and he was given the usual unconvincing excuses. | ||
中国不能再将通货膨胀托词解释为洪灾和动物瘟疫所带的短期影响，也不能再对宏观调控政策造成的经济紧绷置之不理。 China can no longer explain away inflation as a short-term result of floods and epidemics of animal disease? Nor can it ignore the strains its macroeconomic policies are producing. | ||
