Justify

(verb.) adjust the spaces between words; 'justify the margins'.

(verb.) show to be right by providing justification or proof; 'vindicate a claim'.

(verb.) show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; 'The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns'; 'The end justifies the means'.

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• As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• But it will be still more difficult to fulfil the second condition, requisite to justify this system. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Appearances did not justify an assault where we were. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The movements of the enemy may justify, or even make it your imperative duty, to cut loose from your base, and strike for the interior to aid Sherman. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She still preserved her proud manner, but there was a touch of softness in her voice, as she answered: 'I justify nothing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• To make a direct attack from either wing would cause a slaughter of our men that even success would not justify. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The ephemeral nature of the vast majority of hypotheses and the dange r to progress of accepting an unverified assumption justify the demand for demonstrative e vidence. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• His judgment, activity, and consummate bravery, justified their choice. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Virtue is free, and as a man honours or dishonours her he will have more or less of her; the responsibility is with the chooser--God is justified. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• If it is designedly done, they cannot be justified; but I have no idea of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Mr. Fairlie had simply justified my expectations--and there was an end of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The right of the crown to those countries described by the author is justified. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• She perceives that it is justified. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Julia might be justified in so doing by the hints of Mrs. Grant, inclined to credit what she wished, and Maria by the hints of Mr. Crawford himself. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It was the evil in the world that set Leibniz the task of justifying the ways of God to man. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• These are reasons justifying the assault. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I can no longer think of you to your prejudice--I am but too much absorbed in justifying you. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• With one hand across his breast and the other on the easy chair, Riah, without justifying himself, waited for further questioning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mankind has certainly come nearer to justifying Mr. Chesterton's observation that one of its favorite games is called Cheat the Prophet. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We have had economists who set out with the preconceived idea of justifying the factory system. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He stood tall on the hearth, a figure justifying his mother's unconcealed pride. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The principle is not what justifies an activity, for the principle is but another name for the continuity of the activity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• However, it justifies me, I suppose, in going into mourning. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Then you don't believe that the Bible justifies slavery, said Miss Ophelia. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• That is what gives understanding, and justifies the observation that the intuitions of scientific discovery and the artist's perceptions are closely related. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Without supposing any change in human quality, but merely its release from the present system of inordinate waste, history justifies this expectation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• What you say now justifies my own view, said Lydgate. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He fancies that some abstract principle justifies his course of action without recognizing that his principle needs justification. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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