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遁辞,藉口,托辞

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Subterfuge \Sub"ter*fuge\, n. [F., from LL. subterfugium, fr. L.
   subterfugere to flee secretly, to escape; subter under +
   fugere to flee. See {Fugitive}.]
   That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an
   artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an
   argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an
   evasion.

         Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the
         force of an argument.                    --I. Watts.

         By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this
         position safe by rendering it nugatory.  --Burke.

资料来源 : WordNet®

subterfuge
     n : something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an
         activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge";
         "the holding company was just a blind" [syn: {blind}]