1.最直接的理由

What homework？

什么作业？（装傻时请自觉配合表情……

2.最得瑟的理由

Aliens took it as a sample of human handwriting.

作业被外星人拿去当人类字迹样本了。（茫茫作业中，选中的就是你的……）

3.最恶心的理由

My dog ate it. Seriously，

look， I brought a stool sample.

作業被狗吃了。真的，你看，我带来了粪便样本。（人类已经无法阻止狗狗吃作业了……）

4.最高境界的理由

I was too worried about genocide in obscure African nations to focus on homework.

我太担心暗藏杀机的非洲国家将面临种族灭绝大屠杀，而无法集中注意力做作业了。

5.最残忍的理由

My father had a nervous breakdown and cut it up to make paper dolls.

我老爸有点神经失常，把作业剪裁开来折纸玩偶了。（老爸悲催了……）

6.最无厘头的理由

The nice man with the sign says the end is HERE. No one does homework on the eve of the apocalypse.

一个和善的先生拿着一个牌子写着：今天大家都完蛋。没人在世界末日前夕还做家庭作业的。

7.最经典的理由

I ran out of toilet paper and had to improvise.

厕所没纸了，只能拿作业纸凑合着用了。（亲，这个有点过时了……）

8.最有爱的理由

My mother took it to have it framed.

我妈妈把作业装裱了。（总不能棒打母爱吧……）

9.最“权威”的理由

The District Court of Appeals recently ruled that homework is officially cruel and unusual punishment.

地方上诉法院最近裁定家庭作业是官方的不人道和非常规的惩罚措施。（于是老师颇感“鸭梨”……）

10.最高科技的理由

I have a solar powered calculator and it was cloudy.

我用的是太阳能计算器，而当时是阴天。（后面的意思，你懂的……）