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excused

/verb ik-skyooz; noun ik-skyoos/US // verb ɪkˈskyuz; noun ɪkˈskyus //

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v.有主动词 verb
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    ex·cused, ex·cus·ing.

    • : to regard or judge with forgiveness or indulgence; pardon or forgive; overlook: Excuse his bad manners.
    • : to offer an apology for; seek to remove the blame of: He excused his absence by saying that he was ill.
    • : to serve as an apology or justification for; justify: Ignorance of the law excuses no one.
    • : to release from an obligation or duty: to be excused from jury duty.
    • : to seek or obtain exemption or release for: to excuse oneself from a meeting.
    • : to refrain from exacting; remit; dispense with: to excuse a debt.
    • : to allow to leave: If you'll excuse me, I have to make a telephone call.
n.名词 noun
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    • : an explanation offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or for release from an obligation, promise, etc.: His excuse for being late was unacceptable.
    • : a ground or reason for excusing or being excused: Ignorance is no excuse.
    • : the act of excusing someone or something.
    • : a pretext or subterfuge: He uses his poor health as an excuse for evading all responsibility.
    • : an inferior or inadequate specimen of something specified: That coward is barely an excuse for a man. Her latest effort is a poor excuse for a novel.

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Examples

  • Traditional absentee excuses include military deployments or illness.

  • In fact, Texas is one of only six remaining states that are using strict lists of excuses to decide who can vote by mail this year.

  • Without broader change, Markowitz argued, the city will probably just find another law to use as an excuse to punish speech they don’t like.

  • That takes care of those five and whatever excuses might be connected to how they were obtained and who did what to obtain them.

  • If your organization is smaller, don’t use the small sample size as an excuse to avoid this work.

  • Whatever the excuse, in 2008 we were all subjected to Celebrity Apprentice.

  • Augustus, also known as Augustus the Strong, was a party-boy, and loved any excuse to celebrate.

  • This same fear has recently resurfaced as the number one excuse for blocking a proposed subway through Beverly Hills.

  • But since the government has now permitted the River God to leave the U.K., that excuse can no longer wash.

  • In it, Weber suggested approaching a woman with lines like: “Excuse me, but you look beautiful.”

  • One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"

  • Could he be conscious of all this, and not excuse the unsteady youth—accuse himself?

  • I must admit that there is some excuse for you; the pearl of Andalusia is undoubtedly ravissante.

  • "A woman's particular reason is a man's feeble excuse," murmured Sir Lucien rudely.

  • Now she knew why her expected guest had not come last night, or remembered to send an excuse.