第三人称复数：justifications
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1. There is no justification for his absence.
他没有理由缺席。
2. What can be said in justification of what he had done?
能说些什么来为他做下的事辩护呢？
1. 合理化：基于这个理论,使用记号的行为可以援引规则来得到合理化(justification),而这种合理化的结果是,我们说这个记号是有意义的. 这样,我们就得到一种关于意义的二分理论,一方面是无意义的、物理的记号,另一方面,是赋予记号以意义的规则,
1. 正当理由；合理的解释
A justification for something is an acceptable reason or explanation for it.
e.g. To me the only justification for a zoo is educational...
对我来说，动物园存在的唯一正当理由是其教育作用。
e.g. I knew from the beginning that there was no justification for what I was doing.
我从一开始就知道我的所作所为毫无道理。
1. What makes most sovereign states shudder is that it now appears political and economic clout has replaced international law as justification for instigating conflicts.
2. One clue to justification is borrowing from the future flows of real goods and services.
3. Bush and other top administration officials cited alleged ties between Iraq and al Qaeda as a justification for military action.
4. His justification for the shrine pilgrimage that the war criminals already took responsibility by receiving the death penalty cannot free Koizumi from condemnation.
5. Political correctness is still the justification that some authorities use when they feel it necessary to ignore the interests and rights of residents.
6. The case cost Cheney his most trusted adviser, and the trial revealed Cheney's personal obsession with criticism of the war's justification.
7. Actually, even the justification for passengers contributing to the cost of constructing airports is in doubt.
8. Nearly three months of searching have turned up no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, whose alleged existence was the main justification for going to war.
9. He said Iraqis holding legitimate passports and visas underwent humiliating detention at airports for days before being deported without any justification.
10. The district government has not given convincing justification for widening the canal.