托词 meaning in English
1.(找借口) find a pretext; make an excuse 短语和例子
2.(借口) pretext; excuse; subterfuge; pretension; plea 短语和例子
Examples
- He had numerous excuses to offer for being late .
他对迟到有无数的托词。 - The fiction of the cab had been tacitly abandoned .
乘马车的托词，不言而喻没人再提了。 - His excuse was a beaut !
他的托词可真妙！ - 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？ - 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。