The label "unconventional" is used not to exculpate Swinburne from the charge of immorality but to show that he is incompatible with but may be in advance of his times.(使用“非正統”一詞，不是為史文朋開脫罪名，而是意在指出他不合于但可能先進于他所處的時代。)

But there is a troubling subtext: the author’s attempts to exculpate himself.(不過令人煩惱的是，作者總打算替自己開脫。)

The diary is not the one who will always update, but it is only the note of someday, I begin to exculpate from my giving up in the midway.(“日記”絕非“天天記”而是“某天的記錄”，我又開始為自己的“三分鐘熱度”辯解了。)

Now you must face them frankly, facing these situations, your instinctive action is "escaping then covering up", trying to exculpate yourself from the trouble.(現在你必須要坦白面對他們。面對這些情形，本能的反應是“先逃避后掩蓋”，想盡辦法為自己開脫。)

How would you exculpate for them?(你如何為他們辯解？)

Conservative writers quickly used the insanity defense to exculpate the Palins and the Bachmanns.(保守派作家迅速用精神問題為Plains和Bachmanns開脫。)