explain / ɪkˈspleɪn /

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explain3 个定义

v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point.
  2. to make known in detail: to explain how to do something.
  3. to assign a meaning to; interpret: How can you explain such a silly remark?
  4. to make clear the cause or reason of; account for: I cannot explain his strange behavior.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to give an explanation.
v. 动词组 verb
  1. explain away, to diminish or nullify the significance of by explanation: He couldn't explain away his absence from home at the time the robbery was committed.to dispel by explanation: She explained away the child's fears.

explain 近义词

v. 动词 verb

make clear; give a reason for

更多explain例句

  1. So don’t expect him to spout some hackneyed nostrums for success to explain an elixir-producing expedition that would make his Viking ancestors proud.
  2. He explained that the memo with the standard was written on “deadline” and that critics “rightly saw this as a threat to our journalism,” said sources present at the meeting.
  3. In a viral TikTok video, the Louisiana native explained that the adhesive in her hair wouldn’t budge after fifteen washes.
  4. “Re-creating a scent is never enough,” said Dutch scent historian Caro Verbeek, explaining that together, storytelling and aroma can merge into a singularly powerful experience.
  5. Police explained Wednesday morning that their investigation could take several weeks as detective dissect the crash scene, interview witnesses and await laboratory results.
  6. A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.
  7. I asked her to explain more about these “private customers.”
  8. After the curtain calls, Christopher comes back to explain a complicated math problem.
  9. The problem is, how do you find a movie narrative that can explain genius, British or otherwise?
  10. Nothing can be explained without the language to explain it.
  11. We stood staring after the fugitives in perfect bewilderment, totally unable to explain their apparently causeless panic.
  12. How, then, are we to explain this extraordinary discrepancy between human power and resulting human happiness?
  13. The pulse in Louis's temples beat hard; yet he was determined not to anticipate, but make Wharton explain himself.
  14. Would it not be more advisable to write to the London house itself, and explain the object of his coming up?
  15. Father Fochel of the Cathedral had attempted to explain it; but he had not done so to her satisfaction.