这是一个小小的狡辩。

But this is a minor quibble.

你为什么给我那么多狡辩的解释?。

Why are you give me so much chicanery as a explanation?

那家破产公司的总裁推托责任，极力狡辩，但还是被董事会解雇了。

EXAMPLE: The excuses and rhetoric of the failing company president did not keep the board of directors from firing him.

最应受谴责的是，伊莉莎毫不遮掩的表示，美国在为伊战狡辩时“过分相信支离破碎的情报信息”。

Most damningly, she said bluntly that there was an "over-reliance on fragmentary intelligence" to justify the war.

从事实看来这解释有点牵强或强词夺理。但奥巴马的利比亚军事行动连这点狡辩的边都沾不上，因为国会没有拨款用于利比亚战争。

It was a big stretch, given the actual facts -- but Obama can't even take advantage of this same desperate expedient, since Congress has appropriated no funds for the Libyan war.