justify
/ˈd͡ʒʌstɪfaɪ/ 动词 B2中文： 辩解、辩护、声辩
- To provide an acceptable explanation for. · How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?· Paying too much for car insurance is not justified.
- To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant. · Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
- To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned. · The text will look better justified.
- To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right. · She felt no need to justify herself for deciding not to invite him.
- To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
- To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
He/she/it justifies · 过去式 justified · 过去分词 justified · -ing形式 justifying
动词形式
- 原形
- justify
- He/she/it
- justifies
- 过去式
- justified
- 过去分词
- justified
- -ing形式
- justifying
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She assured him that no one intended to play, and the silence of the whole party on the subject seemed to justify her.
She received him with her very best politeness, which he returned with as much more, apologizing for his intrusion, without any previous acquaintance with her, which he could not help flattering himself, however, might be justified by his relationship to the young ladies who introduced him to her notice.
I do not mean, however, to assert that we can be justified in devoting too much of our time to music, for there are certainly other things to be attended to.
“If it is designedly done, they cannot be justified; but I have no idea of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine.”
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