| 1. | He had numerous excuses to offer for being late .
他对迟到有无数的托词。 |
| 2. | The fiction of the cab had been tacitly abandoned .
乘马车的托词，不言而喻没人再提了。 |
| 3. | His excuse was a beaut !
他的托词可真妙！ |
| 4. | If so, how would that affect his plea of a change of his heart ?
要是这样，他那个回心转意的托词会不会受到影响呢？ |
| 5. | The independents tried hard to swallow the wretched subterfuge .
独立党的党员们硬着头皮想把这一拙劣的托词信以为真。 |
| 6. | They pretended they could not make any proposal, because it might be made use of against them .
他们托词说他们没有什么主意，因为他们怕我也许会利用他们所出的主意来加害于他们。 |
| 7. | An ostensible or professed purpose ; an excuse
借口，托词表面的目的；理由 |
| 8. | He alleged illness as a reason for not going to work
他托词有病，作为不去上班的理由。 |
| 9. | Soon , on finding a pretext , xiao leaves
萧何漫应之，旋即托词他往。 |
| 10. | He tried to palm me off with some excuse about the bus being late
他托词公共汽车晚点骗我原谅他 |
