| 正面 | 3508.excuse 英 [ɪk'skjuːz; ek-]美 [ɪk'skjʊs]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 谐音“皮球儿”---投皮球儿的人---投手。2. pitcher <===> beaker.n. 借口；理由vt. 原谅；为…申辩；给…免去vi. 作为借口；请求宽恕；表示宽恕 例句： 1. He'd telephoned with some phoney excuse she didn't believe for a minute.他找了某个她根本不会相信的借口给她打电话。 excuse 借口ex-, 向外。-cus,原因，词源同causal, because. excuseexcuse: [13] Etymologically, excuse means ‘free of accusation’. It comes via Old French from Latin excūsāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex-, denoting removal, and causa ‘cause’ – but ‘cause’ in the sense not of something that produces a result, but of ‘legal action, accusation’ (a meaning preserved in English ‘cause list’, for example) Originally, the s of both the noun and the verb was pronounced /z/; the /s/ of the modern English noun arose by analogy with such nouns as use and abuse.=> accuse, causeexcuse (v.)mid-13c., "attempt to clear (someone) from blame, find excuses for," from Old French escuser (12c., Modern French excuser) "apologize, make excuses; pardon, exonerate," from Latin excusare "excuse, apologize, make an excuse for, plead as an excuse; release from a charge; decline, refuse, excuse the refusal of" (source also of Spanish excusar, Italian scusare), from ex- "out, away" (see ex-) + causa "accusation, legal action" (see cause (n.)). Sense of "forgive, pardon, accept another's plea of excuse" is from early 14c. Meaning "to obtain exemption or release from an obligation or duty; beg to be excused" is from mid-14c. in English, as is the sense "defend (someone or something) as right." Sense of "serve as justification for" is from 1530s. Related: Excused; excusing. Excuse me as a mild apology or statement of polite disagreement is from c. 1600.excuse (n.)late 14c., "pretext, justification," from Old French excuse, from excuser (see excuse (v.)). The sense of "that which serves as a reason for being excused" is recorded from mid-15c. As a noun, excusation is the earlier form (mid-14c.)." |