alibi
英 ['?l?ba?]
美['?l?ba?]
- n. 不在場證明或辯解；托辭
- v. 辯解；找托辭開脫
英英釋意
- 1. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
- 2. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.;
- "he kept finding excuses to stay"
- "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"
- "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"