self-justification

1. That sense of latent self-justification helps explain why Japan's neighbours, who find it useful to play the history card, are so unwilling to acknowledge official apologies.
   这种不易察觉的自我开脱意识，有助于解释日本各邻国为什么都不愿意接受日本官方的道歉，相反，却认为打历史牌很有用。
2. The demon's weak attempt at self-justification did not deceive either of the horrified night elves.
   恶魔无力的辩解没有能欺骗任何一个震惊的暗夜精灵。
3. We need not get caught in the trap of self-justification, for our standing before God does not depend on our accomplishments.
   我们也无需陷在自义中，因为我们得以站在上帝面前并不因着我们的成就。
4. Mr Cheney's new memoir, despite its breezy self-justification, does little to dispel that notion, showing exactly how a vice-president can run amok.
   这本回忆录确切的显示了身为副总统，切尼如何能够胆大包天、胡作非为。
5. It is in that process of reducing dissonance that the self-justification accelerator is throttled up.
   就是在减轻这种失调的过程当中，自我合理化的加速器才开大起来。
6. If self-loathing in the face of the law makes us hate God, self-justification can make us deny the need for God.
   如果在律法面前的处怨自艾导致我们恨恶上帝，那么自我为义则导致我们不需要上帝。
7. Interpretation of Escalation of Commitment Based on an Experiment Research: Self-justification Theory or Prospect Theory;
   基于实验研究的恶性增资行为解释：自辨理论还是前景理论？
8. For a moment, her self-justification buoyed her up but still she looked about the hall with distaste.
   自我辩解使她暂时受到了鼓舞，不过她仍在厌恶地环顾着大厅。
9. Let us take hold of our freedom in Christ and lay aside the despair and self-justification that hamper our ministries.
   让我们警守在基督里的自由，丢开绝望和自义，不要让它挡阻我们的事工。
10. It is not difficult to understand that such a religiosity was prone to self-righteousness and self-justification.
    而我们也不难理解，这样的宗教情结使人倾向于伪善或自以为是。
11. He kept finding excuses to stay; every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job; his transparent self-justification was unacceptable.
    他不断寻找呆下去的借口；找不到工作的新借口。
12. Philosophers self-knowledge self-justification and self-guard& Comments on the death of Socrates brought about the turning of political philosophy
    哲人的自知、自辩与自卫&论由苏格拉底之死而来的哲学的政治转向
13. By using these strategies Nabokov succeeds in achieving the delicate narrative balance, and Humbert reaches his narrative motivation of self-justification.
    通过这些策略的运用，纳博科夫成功地保持了微妙的叙事平衡，亨伯特成功地实现了其自我辩护的叙事动机。

noun

1. a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
   1. he kept finding excuses to stay
   2. every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job
   3. his transparent self-justification was unacceptable

   Synonym:    excusealibiexculpation