不及物动词

名词

1. 不在犯罪现场的证明
If you have an alibi, you can prove that you were somewhere else when a crime was committed.

2. 借口；托词
You can say that someone has an alibi when they can prove that something was not their fault.

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.

e.g. he kept finding excuses to stay
every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job
his transparent self-justification was unacceptable

Synonym: excuseexculpationself-justification