1.making excuses in an attempt to explain your own behaviour or actions
2.automatically providing an even right or left margin for text printed on a page
3.describes an argument or rule that justifies or explains itself without referring to something else because of being regarded as completely logical or obvious
1.Failure in bureaucracy means not bankruptcy but writing self-justifying memos, and at worst a transfer elsewhere.
官僚体制中的失败并不意味着破产，只需要写些自我辩白的备忘录，最坏也就是调到别处。