excuse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 原谅， 宽恕， 免除n. 借口， 辩解，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I havethought, since, that its assuming that character was a necessaryconsequence of Mr. Murdstone's firmness, which wouldn't allow 55him to let anybody off from the utmost weight of the severestpenalties he could find any excuse for.
-- 'I beg your pardon, my dear Jane,' said my mother,'but are you quite sure- I am certain you'll excuse me, my dearJane- that you understand Davy?'
-- 'You'll excuse my saying, sir,' returned my aunt, 'that I think itwould have been a much better and happier thing if you had leftthat poor child alone.'
-- I wasengaged for a moment, but you'll excuse my being busy.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I know that you all love her really too well to be unjust or unkind; but excuse me, Mr. Knightley, if I take the liberty (I consider myself, you know, as having somewhat of the privilege of speech that Emma's mother might have had) the liberty of hinting that I do not think any possible good can arise from Harriet Smith's intimacy being made a matter of much discussion among you.
-- Pray excuse me; but suppos-ing any little inconvenience may be apprehended from the intimacy, it cannot be expected that Emma, accountable to nobody but her father, who perfectly approves the acquain-tance, should put an end to it, so long as it is a source of pleasure to herself.
-- 'Well, I believe, if you will excuse me, Mr. Knightley, if you will not consider me as doing a very rude thing, I shall take Emma's advice and go out for a quarter of an hour.
-- And therefore I think I will beg your excuse and take my three turns my winter walk.'
-- But, upon my word, Mr. Elton, in your case, I should certainly excuse myself.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You must excuse the accident please."
-- I also return the money I owe you, which you will excuse my not keeping as a gift.
-- Perhaps it was some excuse for her thus torturing honesty to her own advantage, that she had absolutely no other sound judgment within easy reach.
-- "'Tis only my manner, Mister Oak, if ye'll excuse it," said Cain Ball, looking reproachfully at Oak, with eyes drenched in their own dew.
-- Please excuse my mistake, if it is one; but if you would like to, I'll get a seat for you with pleasure."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Couture went on, without heeding the worthy vermicelli maker's exclamation; "father and son bowed to me, and asked me to excuse them on account of urgent business!
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, hell!That's no excuse for insulting me!You are Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time TonyFontaine shot you in the leg?
-- What excuse couldshe give for prowling about the house when all the other girls were getting their beauty naps?
-- Will you excuse me dear?"
-- It's just a good excuse for cowards.
-- Yes, Scarlettwas sick of it all, and that morning she wished that she, like Melanie, had the excuse of pregnancy to offer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a song that imitated the measure of beating upon iron, and was a mere lyrical excuse for the introduction of Old Clem's respected name.
-- Each of these exclamations was a shriek; and I must remark of my sister, what is equally true of all the violent women I have ever seen, that passion was no excuse for her, because it is undeniable that instead of lapsing into passion, she consciously and deliberately took extraordinary pains to force herself into it, and became blindly furious by regular stages; "what was the name he gave me before the base man who swore to defend me?
-- At last his father disinherited him; but he softened when he was dying, and left him well off, though not nearly so well off as Miss Havisham.--Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose."
-- If now considered in the light of a liberty, excuse it for the love of poor old days.
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