- 1情有可原的（幾乎都配 circumstances，指可減輕情節的情況）
Most students meet this word in one set phrase: extenuating circumstances. Those are the extra facts that make a mistake or a broken rule seem less bad — not gone, but thinner, easier to understand, easier to feel sorry about. A judge may give a lighter sentence because of them; a teacher may be less angry; a friend may still mind, but less. The older verb behind it, extenuate, means to make a fault seem smaller by explaining. The picture in the Latin is “make thin.” Though actually, extenuating does not mean the person did nothing wrong, and it does not wipe the act away. It only asks us to weigh the story around it. You will hear it in law, in schools, and in careful apology. Outside that phrase, the adjective is uncommon.
組成From Latin ex (“to delete, to cross out”) and tenuatus, past participle of tenuare (“to make thin”), plus -ing. By surface analysis, ex- + tenuate + -ing.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
extenuatingadj
- 1
That attenuates or lessens the seriousness of something, , e.g. by providing a mitigating excuse for it.
- In the instant case, testimony has been offered that there were extenuating circumstances which might have made it impossible for the Hospital to comply with the time limit (Union office closed on April 4, 1974, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day March).
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- extenuate
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