To understand these motives is not to condone them.

理解这些动机不是为了谴责他们。

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No one wants to condone bad behaviour, but the consequences of failure can be dire.

虽然国家不会放任银行的恶劣行为，但是更不愿看到灾难性的后果。

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To condone a set of laws that give them immeasurable power over their children is asking for trouble.

赐于一套无上权威的规定给于这些父母是自取其咎的行为。

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Yes, I do believe it's theft but perhaps it is necessary to condone that theft.

我确实认为这是盗窃,但也许我们有必要容忍它。

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Now, I think in certain circumstances it becomes necessary to overlook that unjustness, perhaps condone that injustice as in the case of the cabin boy being killed for food.

我认为在某些情况下,我们需要忽视这种不公平，容忍这种不正义,例如在救生艇里被当作食物的男孩。

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At the time Volkswagen said the "highly stylised and choreographed" adverts were not intended to condone violence.

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The novelist worked neither to correct nor to condone, and not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

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Why should we be seen to condone the actions of this woman?

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