托词

A role as senior diplomat would be a good alibi for his absence.

高级外交官的角色将是他缺席的上佳托词。

We want straight answers. No evasions.

我们要的是正面回答，不是托词。

The thief pleaded poverty.

那个贼以贫穷为托词.

Claiming a lack of opportunities is superficial excuse for justifying failure.

声称缺少机遇只是是敷衍失败的托词.

He alleged illness as a reason for not going to work.

他托词有病,作为不去上班的理由.

I am tired of your ifs and buts.

你的托词我听厌了.

Mr Dunn's pleas of poverty are only partly justified.

邓恩先生贫穷的托词只是部分成立。

He had numerous excuses to offer for being late.

他对迟到有无数的托词.

If so, how would that affect his plea of a change of his heart?

要是这样, 他那个回心转意的托词会不会受到影响 呢 ?

He's merely looking for a pretext.

他只是在找托词.

It is merely a pretense.

这只是托词而已.

The fiction of the cab had been tacitly abandoned.

乘马车的托词,不言而喻没人再提了.

Mr Patel phoned the University for an explanation, and he was given the usual unconvincing excuses.

帕特尔先生致电大学要求对方作出解释，但只得到了一些无关痛痒的惯用托词。

He tried to palm me off with some excuse about the bus being late.

他托词公共汽车晚点骗我原谅他.

But , of course, there is always market sentiment to fall back on.

当然, 人们总是可以把“市场情绪”当作托词.