| 词组 | excuse |
| 释义 | excuse /ɪkˈskjuːs/ noun a reason that you give to explain something you doadjectivesa good excuse I hope you have a good excuse for keeping me waiting.a wonderful/great excuse (=a very good excuse to do something) A wedding is a wonderful excuse to buy a new set of clothes.the perfect excuse The phone call gave me the perfect excuse to leave.a reasonable/legitimate/valid excuse (=one that is true and that other people cannot criticize) He didn’t have a legitimate excuse for being late.a plausible excuse (=one that other people will believe) She tried to think of a plausible excuse.a lame/feeble/weak/flimsy excuse (=not good) Joe muttered some feeble excuse about having a headache.a pathetic excuse (=very weak) That’s the most pathetic excuse I’ve ever heard.the usual excuse/the same old excuse He made the usual excuses for not coming. | Whenever the trains are late, it’s always the same old excuse.a convenient excuse The rioting provided the government with a convenient excuse not to hold an election.verbsgive/offer an excuse I’ll have to give my boss some kind of excuse.make an excuse I made an excuse and left.make up/think up/invent an excuse I made up some excuse about my car breaking down. | We’d better think up an excuse, fast.find an excuse You must find an excuse to go back there.have an excuse Companies have no excuse for breaking the law.use sth as an excuse She never complained or used her illness as an excuse.look for an excuse I began to look for excuses to avoid seeing him.believe/accept an excuse She didn’t believe his excuse for one minute.listen to sb’s excuses The teacher didn’t want to listen to his excuses.run out of excuses (=have made a lot of excuses before, so that you cannot think of any more) The government has run out of excuses for its failure to fix the economy.make excuses for sb/sth (=try to explain why someone has made a mistake or behaved badly) His mother was always making excuses for her son’s behaviour.sth gives sb/provides an excuse Drinking provides an excuse for behaving badly.prepositionsan excuse for (doing) sth What was his excuse for not calling you?phrasesat the slightest excuse (=for any reason, however unimportant) She comes to our house at the slightest excuse.use every excuse in the book (=use every possible excuse) He used every excuse in the book to avoid seeing the doctor. |
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