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 justify ['dʒʌstifai]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 替...辩护, 证明

vi. 证明合法

[计] 段落重排, 两端对齐




    justify
    justified


    Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Justified}; p. pr. &
    vb. n. {Justifying}.] [F. justifier, L. justificare; justus
    just + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Just}, a., and
    {-fy}.]
    1. To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or
    defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety,
    or duty.

    That to the height of this great argument
    I may assert eternal providence,
    And justify the ways of God to men. --Milton.

    Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify
    revolution, it would not justify the evil of
    breaking up a government. --E. Everett.

    2. To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove
    to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to
    absolve; to exonerate; to clear.

    I can not justify whom the law condemns. --Shak.

    3. (Theol.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to
    exculpate; to absolve.

    By him all that believe are justified from all
    things, from which ye could not be justified by the
    law of Moses. --Acts xiii.
    39.

    4. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. [Obs.] --Shak.

    5. (Print.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper
    spacing; to align (text) at the left (left justify) or
    right (right justify) margins of a column or page, or at
    both margins; to adjust, as type. See {Justification}, 4.

    6. (Law)
    (a) 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.
    (b) To qualify (one's self) as a surety by taking oath to
    the ownership of sufficient property.
    [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

    The production of bail in court, who there
    justify themselves against the exception of the
    plaintiff. --Bouvier's
    Law Dict.
    [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

    Syn: To defend; maintain; vindicate; excuse; exculpate;
    absolve; exonerate.


    Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. i.
    1. (Print.) To form an even surface or true line with
    something else; to fit exactly.

    2. (Law) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient
    to qualify one's self as bail or surety.

    1. Philippine Sen. Aquilino Pimentel said the travel advisory was meant to show that the Philippines has falled into "anarchy and chaos" to justify moving the talks outside the country.
    2. For individuals, the minimum face value of investments in Third World debt tends to be $1 million or more; bankers say the documentation involved in transferring such loans is too complex to justify doing trades much smaller than that.
    3. Moscow wants IMF endorsement of its credentials as a pro-reform government, while the Fund is seeking to justify its position as lead manager in helping Russia remake its economy in the capitalist mould. Reaching agreement will not be easy.
    4. "There's just no way to justify this pay hike at this time," he said. "We have a huge deficit.
    5. "I felt like once they got production up, you were going to get an incentive," he said Thursday. "The numbers just justify it." GM's minivans went on sale last October.
    6. Here Mr. Kinsley's slogan, "Innocent civilians will be killed," is being implanted by the intellectuals and media to justify the betrayal of anti-Communist movements in Angola and Mozambique.
    7. Roughly one out of 200 kimberlite pipes contain diamonds, but only one in 20 of those has a high enough proportion of gemstones to justify a mine. The Northwest Territories diamond rush may yet come to naught.
    8. "There hasn't been any great big fundamental change in the economy in the past two weeks" to justify the market's sharp move, said Ms. Hughes.
    9. But the fear of one was enough to justify the alliance in the eyes of its members. With the end of the cold war and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, that is no longer the case.
    10. But it is an open question whether these features justify the judicial construction of a federal contract and tort system on top of the anti-discrimination system Congress has put in place.
    11. Milea told Ceausescu he had studied the military regulations and found nothing to justify the shooting of civilians.
    12. 'In certain areas in the group there simply wasn't the bulk of business to justify the cost structure.
    13. As their mystique is gradually stripped away, they will doubtless have to justify themselves and their actions far more in the face of growing critical scrutiny.
    14. We had worked hard and long on it." To justify the lower price tag, Mr. Plaskett contends Pan Am would benefit more from a marketing pact linking Pan Am with United.
    15. "(They) gave the terrorists the tools to justify my eradication," he said.
    16. We have some of the best-quality factories in the world in the US.' The government faces a difficult task to justify the level of financial aid being sought by Ford in the number of new jobs that will be created at Jaguar.
    17. Pressed by the UAL board for evidence of progress that would justify blocking the order, Mr. Greenwald named five banks that were working with the union group.
    18. But many bankers said borrowing costs haven't fallen enough to justify a reduction.
    19. So did Mr Yegor Gaidar, architect of Russia's reforms and leader of the largest reformist party, Russia's Choice, justify his refusal to serve as first deputy prime minister.
    20. Railtrack must have confidence that it can come to us and justify a charge without feeling that we are in one camp.' He wants to be a positive force in the industry rather than a threat to its stability.
    21. "Unless habitat loss is reversed, in 30 or 40 years, there won't be enough salmon left to justify any commercial fishing," said Mr. Baake, the Oregon Trout resource director.
    22. And insurers point to those increases to justify their rates.
    23. Touche Ross had been brought in as a monitor for the project at the outset and helped to produce the cost estimates used to justify the project.
    24. It realised that the smaller submarine fleet planned by the Ministry of Defence would justify no more than one facility.
    25. "Now I know I can justify eating a lot of turkey, drinking some beers and eating some cake because I've got my workout in," Sean McCrossen said after finishing the Buffalo race.
    26. The argument that there is evidence of a sustainable upturn is, therefore, unconvincing.' In view of this economic climate, the rise in profits did no more than justify maintaining the interim dividend at 1p.
    27. By September, however, he advises being "as far away from the equity market as possible" because the potential returns will no longer justify the risk.
    28. "Rawlings has explored options to make it practical and profitable to remain in the helmet business, but can no longer justify the manufacture of competitive football helmets," Smith said.
    29. The appeals court said Oklahoma officials wrongly relied on a 1980 Supreme Court ruling in a Washington state case to justify the taxing of sales to non-tribal members.
    30. The affidavit was filed to justify a search of Cohen's Potomac, Md., house.
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