excusing
present participle ofexcuse
| 单词 | excusing |
| 释义 | excusing present participle ofexcuse excuse verb[T] uk/ɪkˈskjuːz/us/ɪkˈskjuːz/B1 toforgivesomeone: Please excuse meforarrivinglate - thebuswasdelayed. Nothing can excuse thatsortofbehaviour. Noamountoffinancialrecompensecan excuse the way in which thecompanycarriedoutitspolicy. We cannot excuse himforthesecrimes. Iaskedtheteacherif I could be excusedfrom(=allowednot to do)hockeypracticeas mykneestillhurt. Please excuse mefrom(=allowme tomiss)therestof themeeting- I've justreceivedaphonecallthatrequiresmyimmediateattention. excuse me A1 apoliteway ofattractingsomeone'sattention,especiallyof someone you do notknow: Excuse me, does thisbusgo toOxfordStreet? used topolitelyasksomeone tomoveso that you canwalkpast them: Excuse me, can I just get past? used totellsomeonepolitelythat you areleaving: Excuse me amoment, I'll be with youshortly. A2 used to saysorryfor something you have done byaccident: Did I takeyourseat? Do excuse me. said beforedisagreeingwith someone: Excuse me but aren't youforgettingsomething? US(UKpardon?);(I beg your pardon?) used topolitelyasksomeone torepeatsomething they have said because you have notheardit
Making & accepting apologies
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Polite expressions Examplesofexcusingexcusing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Moreover, measuring the extent of a person's desert of punishment requires addressing difficult epistemological questions aboutexcusingand mitigating circumstances. From theCambridge English Corpus None can be considered ' revisionist ' in elucidating an apologia for colonialism or inexcusingsins of commission and omission for which the colonialists bore responsibility. From theCambridge English Corpus Sandwiched between two traps- being soft on crime andexcusingriot-related violence-liberals had to forgo their ideal outcomes and moved closer to the conservative position. From theCambridge English Corpus In contrast, selfblaming affect had no association with selfexcusing. From theCambridge English Corpus They also know that those who call them untranslatable areexcusingthemselves from engaging in acts of interpretation. From theCambridge English Corpus Duress is (in some cases) anexcusingcondition. From theCambridge English Corpus Causation, even by an "abnormal" variable, is not anexcusingcondition. From theCambridge English Corpus I always used to find a rational reason forexcusingmy deeds. From theCambridge English Corpus The causal abnormality must produce a genuine, independentexcusingcondition, such as irrationality, for a moral or legal excuse to obtain. From theCambridge English Corpus In other cases, anti-adaptationists committed the naturalistic fallacy and thought that adaptationists wereexcusingcertain undesirable patterns of behavior when they claimed those behaviors were adaptations. From theCambridge English Corpus Delgado claims that if any one of these fourexcusingconditions held, the individual who committed a crime should be excused. From theCambridge English Corpus Both can reinforce illness behaviour by over-prescribing rest, encouraging medication use, giving misleading interpretations of symptoms, and endorsing a sick role byexcusingschool or providing sickness certification. From theCambridge English Corpus Berl himself hesitated,excusinghimself on the insufficiency of information on which to base his judgement. From theCambridge English Corpus The problem with this account is that theexcusingeffects of provocation and duress can also be explained in terms of their undermining a person's responsibility for his acts. From theCambridge English Corpus The old maxim about ignorance of the lawexcusingnobody should be applied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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