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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Excuse my curiosity, but often in calling upon one friend one finds another.'
-- Well, well, Mr. Holmes, you'll excuse my troubling you about such a trifle ' 'I think it's well worth troubling about.'
-- 'You will, I am sure, excuse my presumption, Dr. Wat-son,' said he, as he came panting up to where I stood.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the chief grievance that rankled in her soul, and gave an excuse for her unfriendly conduct, was a rumor which some oblig-ing gossip had whispered to her, that the March girls had made fun of her at the Lambs'.
-- He dances devinely, but he will excuse me, as you are an old friend,' said Amy, hoping that the name would have a good effect, and show Laurie that she was not to be trifled with.
-- He said the change was owing to the climate, and she did not contradict him, being glad of a like excuse for her own recovered health and spirits.
-- Excuse me for a moment.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm sorry to throw cold water on the subject; but excuse me.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'His pride,' said Miss Lucas, 'does not offend ME so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it.
-- 'Excuse my interference it was kindly meant.'
-- 'I have not a doubt of Mr. Bingley's sincerity,' said Eliza-beth warmly; 'but you must excuse my not being convinced by assurances only.
-- How wonderfully these sort of things oc-cur!Who would have thought of my meeting with, perhaps, a nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in this assembly!I am most thankful that the discovery is made in time for me to pay my respects to him, which I am now going to do, and trust he will excuse my not having done it before.
-- Mr. Col- lins must excuse me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He hoped they would all excuse the smallness of the party, and could assure them it should never happen so again.
-- To enquire after Marianne was at first his excuse; but the encouragement of his reception, to which every day gave greater kindness, made such an excuse unnecessary before it had ceased to be possible, by Marianne's perfect recovery.
-- I am persuaded that Mrs. Smith suspects his regard for Marianne, disapproves of it, (perhaps because she has other views for him,) and on that account is eager to get him away; and that the business which she sends him off to transact is invented as an excuse to dismiss him.
-- But this is no excuse for their concealing it from us."
-- "Marianne has not shyness to excuse any inattention of hers," said Elinor.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been seen at the theatre with people whom he called Moy's friends; now he was seen driving, and, most likely, would have an excuse for that.
-- You'll have to excuse me."
-- "I hope you'll excuse me," she said.
-- You've been so kind, but you'll have to excuse me."
-- With the idea thus grounded, rent day approaching, and clothes calling for instant purchase, she soon found excuse in Hurstwood's lassitude.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' he says, 'there's excuse for picks and letting-on in a case like this; if it warn't so, I wouldn't approve of it, nor I wouldn't stand by and see the rules broke because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no busi-ness doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.
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