| 单词 | excuse |
| 释义 | excuse —excusable, adj. —excusableness, n. —excusably, adv. —excusal, n. —excuseless, adj. —excuser, n. —excusingly, adv. —excusive, adj. —excusively, adv. v. /ik skyoohz"/; n. /ik skyoohs"/, v. , excused, excusing, n. v.t. 1. to regard or judge with forgiveness or indulgence; pardon or forgive; overlook (a fault, error, etc.): Excuse his bad manners. 2. to offer an apology for; seek to remove the blame of: He excused his absence by saying that he was ill. 3. to serve as an apology or justification for; justify: Ignorance of the law excuses no one. 4. to release from an obligation or duty: to be excused from jury duty. 5. to seek or obtain exemption or release for (oneself): to excuse oneself from a meeting. 6. to refrain from exacting; remit; dispense with: to excuse a debt. 7. to allow (someone) to leave: If you'll excuse me, I have to make a telephone call. 8. Excuse me, (used as a polite expression, as when addressing a stranger, when interrupting or disagreeing with someone, or to request repetition of what has just been said.) n. 9. 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. 10. a ground or reason for excusing or being excused: Ignorance is no excuse. 11. the act of excusing someone or something. 12. a pretext or subterfuge: He uses his poor health as an excuse for evading all responsibility. 13. 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. [1175-1225; (v.) ME escusen < OF escuser < L excusare to put outside, exonerate, equiv. to ex- EX-1 + -cusare, deriv. of causa CAUSE; (n.) ME escuse < OF, deriv. of escuser; modern sp. with ex- on the model of EX-1] Syn. 1. EXCUSE, FORGIVE, PARDON imply being lenient or giving up the wish to punish. EXCUSE means to overlook some (usually) slight offense: to excuse bad manners. FORGIVE is applied to excusing more serious offenses: to forgive and forget. PARDON usually applies to a specific act of lenience or mercy by an official or superior: The governor was asked to pardon the condemned criminal. 3. extenuate, palliate. 4. free. 9. justification. EXCUSE, APOLOGY both imply an explanation of some failure or failing. EXCUSE implies a desire to avoid punishment or rebuke. APOLOGY usually implies acknowledgment that one has been in the wrong. 12. pretense, evasion, makeshift. |
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