







excuse
pretext
argument
Her story sounded perfectly plausible.
Many literary academics simply parrot a set of impressive-sounding phrases.

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Open the tool →说辞 (shuō cí) means “excuse, pretext, argument”.
说辞 is pronounced shuō cí in Mandarin Chinese.
“excuse” is 说辞 (shuō cí) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 说辞, each with pinyin and an English translation.