单词详解

1. v.

A. 原谅 (forgive)

Tom cannot come this evening, so he asks you to excuse him.

汤姆今晚不能来，所以他请你原谅。

B. 辩解 (giving reasons showing, or intended to show, that a person or her actions cannot be blamed)

Lucy excused her absence by saying that she was ill. 露西为她的缺席申辩，说是病了。

2. n.

理由，借口，辩解 (reason given to explain or defend one's behaviors; apology)

Her excuse for being late was that she had missed the bus.

她迟到的借口是没有赶上公共汽车。

His excuse didn't go down well; no one believed it.

他的辩解不能使人信服，没有一个人相信它。

相关词组

1. excuse doing sth. 原谅做某事

Excuse my interrupting you. 对不起，打扰你一下。

2. excuse sb. for doing sth. 原谅某人做某事

Please excuse me for coming late. 请恕我来晚了。

3. excuse sb. for sth. 原谅某人做了某事

Billy excused himself for being late by saying that his car had broken down.

比利为迟到作辩解，说他的车坏了。

相关单词

过去式：excused

过去分词：excused

现在分词：excusing

第三人称单数：excuses

形容词：excusable

近义词：pardon, forgive

反义词：blame

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词义辨析： excuse...for, excuse ...from

excuse…for, excuse…from

这个词组都有“辩解，免去责任，惩罚等”

excuse...for: 为……辩解，作为……开脱的理由

excuse...from: 使……免去责任，惩罚等，尤用于被动语态。

词语详解

1. excuse…for: 为……辩解，作为……开脱的理由

Excuse me for being late. 请原谅我迟到了。

2. excuse…from: 使……免去责任，惩罚等，尤用于被动语态。

The teacher has excused the students from their homework for this evening.

老师已经同意学生们今晚不做作业。