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
助記提示
1. 該詞直接取自拉丁語詞匯，沒做任何簡化或變形。
2. 其本意為：elsewhere, somewhere else. 現今含義由此得到引申。
3. ali- + -bi (拉丁語位置格、方位格后綴)。
4. => "the plea of having been elsewhere when an action took place".
中文詞源
alibi 借口拉丁詞。詞根al, 其它，同else.
英文詞源
- alibi
- alibi: [18] In Latin, alibi means literally ‘somewhere else’. It is the locative form (that is, the form expressing place) of the pronoun alius ‘other’ (which is related to Greek allos ‘other’ and English else). When first introduced into English it was used in legal contexts as an adverb, meaning, as in Latin, ‘elsewhere’: ‘The prisoner had little to say in his defence; he endeavoured to prove himself Alibi’, John Arbuthnot, Law is a bottomless pit 1727.
But by the end of the 18th century it had become a noun, ‘plea of being elsewhere at the time of a crime’. The more general sense of an ‘excuse’ developed in the 20th century. Another legal offspring of Latin alius is alias. This was a direct 16th-century borrowing of Latin aliās, a form of alius meaning ‘otherwise’.
=> alias, else - alibi (n.)
- 1743, "the plea of having been elsewhere when an action took place," from Latin alibi "elsewhere, somewhere else," locative of alius "(an)other" (see alias (adv.)). The weakened sense of "excuse" is attested since 1912, but technically any proof of innocence that doesn't involve being "elsewhere" is an excuse, not an alibi.
雙語例句
- 1. This argument is only too blatantly an alibi for domestic repression.
- 這一辯解完全是在為國內的鎮壓活動開脫。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Mick had an airtight alibi.
- 米克有確鑿的不在場證據。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He has a solid alibi.
- 他有不在場的確鑿證據。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The police verified that she had an airtight alibi.
- 警方查明她有著無懈可擊的不在犯罪現場的證據.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Do you have any proof to substantiate your alibi?
- 你有證據表明你當時不在犯罪現場 嗎 ?
來自《簡明英漢詞典》