justifying 活字整理
- Justifying a fault doubles it.
护短是加倍的错误。 - Nine pages also go to justifying the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
还用了9页证明了2003年对伊拉克的入侵是正当的。 - Accept yourself now or you'll go on justifying yourself like a child.
从现在起接受自己,否则你仍将如孩童般沉湎于自我辩护。
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.