Please
excuse us for being late.
请原谅我们迟到了。
Has turned his tired
excuse into an absolute reality.
已经把他那老掉牙的借口变成了绝对的现实。
Eric
excused himself by saying that he was too busy.
埃里克辩解说自己太忙了。
In response to such reports, China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a news conference in Beijing on Wednesday that the US side is spreading false information and using it as an excuse to suppress the Chinese enterprises concerned, which has become a common practice of the US.
针对这些报道，中国外交部发言人毛宁周三在北京举行的新闻发布会上表示，美方正在散布虚假信息，并以此为借口打压有关中国企业，这已成为美国的惯例。
In response to the report, on Wednesday China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a news conference in Beijing the US is spreading false information and using it as an excuse to suppress Chinese enterprises, which has become a common practice of the US.
周三，中国外交部发言人毛宁在北京举行的新闻发布会上回应该报道时表示，美国正在传播虚假信息，并以此为借口打压中国企业，这已成为美国的普遍做法。
China's realization of its carbon goals needs support from advanced technologies, and intellectual property rights protections should not become an excuse by people with different ideologies to refuse cooperation and share in knowledge and new technologies, Zhang said.
张说，中国实现碳目标需要先进技术的支持，知识产权保护不应成为不同意识形态的人拒绝合作、分享知识和新技术的借口。
"But such persistence should not be an excuse to be stagnant.
Using "security concerns" as an excuse to bully enterprises has been a common practice of the US government, which severely harms China's national security, said Zuo Xiaodong, vice-president of the China Information Security Research Institute.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday railed against proposed restrictions on trade with China, saying that his administration wanted to make doing business with China "easy'', including the sale of jet engines, instead of resorting to the "always used national security excuse".
"The United States cannot, & will not, become such a difficult place to deal with in terms of foreign countries buying our product, including for the always used National Security excuse, that our companies will be forced to leave in order to remain competitive," Trump tweeted Tuesday.
Banning Huawei using cybersecurity as an excuse "will do nothing to make networks more secure.
Instead, consumers are simply viewing it as an excuse to party and shop in the void between Singles' Day and the Year of the Pig. "
Bai Ming, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, said this is the latest case in which the US government is leveraging national security concerns as an excuse to block Chinese companies' entry to certain markets.
"Harley-Davidson is using that as an excuse and I don't like that because I've been very good to Harley-Davidson and they used it as an excuse," he said in response.
"Hence, they were just using Tariffs/Trade War as an excuse.
"Taxes just a Harley excuse — be patient! "
"Currently, landlords could arbitrarily terminate rental contracts citing almost any plausible excuse, which breaches tenants' legal rights," said Quan Li, founder of apartment-leasing service Fangdongdong.
Chinese financial institutions should not use their role in serving the real economy as an excuse to help "zombie companies" and instead must help troubled firms with good fundamentals to ride out short-term difficulties, senior officials said.
"It could only get worse if the US continues to contain China's sci-tech development under the excuse of national security," Zhang said.
Furthermore, US sanctions related to China are also on the rise, on the excuse of military and human rights issues, with a particular emphasis on key high-tech fields like aerospace, advanced computing, quantum technology and biotechnology.
Beijing, Washington call for concrete steps amid growing international challengesChina's special climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, has said the world "cannot abandon" the Paris Agreement on climate change, and his United States counterpart, John Kerry, has said countries should not use the Russia-Ukraine conflict as an excuse to let up on the climate fight.
"Indeed, China's vocal views that we should not use COVID-19 as an excuse for insularity and inward-looking policies, resonated strongly with Malaysia," he said.
There is no excuse to let the guard down.
Tang Jiqiang, a professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, Sichuan province, told Xinhua News Agency that support for new economic platforms in China should not be used as an excuse for tax evasion.
Short-term stability cannot be used as an excuse to halt reforms.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday openly vilified proposed restrictions on trade with China, saying that his administration wanted to make doing business with China "easy'', including sales of jet engines, instead of resorting to the "always used national security excuse".
"The United States cannot, & will not, become such a difficult place to deal with in terms of foreign countries buying our product, including for the always used National Security excuse, that our companies will be forced to leave in order to remain competitive," Trump tweeted early Tuesday.
Industry leaders and academics have warned against Siemens and Alstom using potential competition from Chinese rival CRRC as an excuse to merge their rail businesses, saying such a deal would create a monopoly in Europe's rail industry to the detriment of travelers.
Other railway players with businesses in Europe, such as Canada's Bombardier and Japan's Hitachi, have lobbied vehemently against the merger, arguing that CRRC's small presence in Europe means it should not be used as an excuse to give the Siemens-Alstom deal exemption from EU competition law.
Alistair Dormer, chief executive of Hitachi's global rail business, said: "I think using the Chinese as the excuse to merge Siemens and Alstom is a bit premature.
Bai Ming, deputy director of international market research at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, said the US uses the "national security threat" as an excuse to contain the rise of Chinese companies, which completely deviates from the principle of fair competition in a free market.
China firmly opposes India's repeated use of "national security" as an excuse to ban mobile apps with Chinese backgrounds, said Ji Rong, spokeswoman of the Chinese embassy in India.
Miao Wei, minister of industry and information technology, said the world is at a tipping point for large-scale 5G network construction, and it is wrong for any country to use the excuse of cybersecurity risks to practice trade protectionism.
"Economic security" is a new excuse by the United States to disrupt China's long-term economic and trade cooperation with other countries.
The US Treasury designation was seen by analysts as a new excuse for more protectionist measures.
"The refreshed regulation should encourage payment groups to create new business models and upgrade payment technology, but not constrain innovation at the excuse of preventing risks," Yang Dong, director of the Fintech and Internet Security Research Center at Renmin University of China, told China Daily.
"Regulatory authorities are expected to clarify that bank clerks will not be held responsible for loan defaults once they do their due diligence, so that banks are not allowed to use the regulatory requirement as an excuse to discriminate against private companies when banks make decisions on the granting of loans," he said.
Chinese financial institutions will return to their basic function to serve the real economy but will not use it as an excuse bail out businesses facing financial trouble, said senior officials at the Financial Street Forum 2017 in Beijing on Friday.