例句與用法

1. They tried to argue it away by reminding conscience that they had purloined sweetmeats and apples scores of times ; but conscience was not to be appeased by such thin plausibilities ; it seemed to them , in the end , that there was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only " hooking , " while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing - and there was a command against that in the bible
   他們試圖安撫自己的良心，說以往他們也多次偷過糖果和蘋果，可是良心并不買這個帳。最后，他們似乎覺得有一個事實是不容回避的，那就是偷糖果之類不過是“順陽手牽羊” ，而偷咸肉和火腿等貴重東西就正兒巴經是偷竊了圣經曾就此明文禁止過。