| 词汇 | alibi |
| 词源 | alibi. “We the jury, find that the accused was alibi,” was the verdict in one 18th-century criminal trial. This simply meant that the defendant was “elsewhere” when the crime was com- mitted, and therefore innocent. Over the centuries, the Latin alibi, for elsewhere, was used so often in the courts in this sense that it entered everyday speech as both the synonym for an ac- cused criminal’s “story” and an excuse, often a spurious one, in general. |
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