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explain    音标拼音: [ɪkspl'en]
vt. 解释,说明
vi. 解释,说明,辩解

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explain
v 1: make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of
physics to his students" [synonym: {explain}, {explicate}]
2: define; "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising
to the Dean"
3: serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to
sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her
recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"
[synonym: {excuse}, {explain}]

Explain \Ex*plain"\ ([e^]ks*pl[=a]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Explained}([e^]ks*pl[=a]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Explaining}.]
[L. explandare to flatten, spread out, explain; ex out
plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF.
esplaner, explaner. See {Plain},a., and cf. {Esplanade}.]
1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.]
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The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its
leaf. --Evelyn.
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2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of
obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the
meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.
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Commentators to explain the difficult passages to
you. --Gay.
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{To explain away}, to get rid of by explanation. "Those
explain the meaning quite away." --Pope.

Syn: To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.
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Explain \Ex*plain"\, v. i.
To give an explanation.
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149 Moby Thesaurus words for "explain":
absolve, account, account for, acquit, aid, allegorize, analyze,
answer, bottom, break down, clarify, clear, clear the way,
clear up, condone, construe, crack, cry sour grapes, debug,
decipher, decode, define, delineate, demonstrate, demythologize,
describe, destigmatize, detail, disclose, discourse, disentangle,
divine, do, do justice to, dope, dope out, ease, elucidate,
enlighten, euhemerize, exculpate, excuse, exemplify, exonerate,
expedite, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, extenuate,
facilitate, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer,
find the solution, get, get across, get over, get right,
give reason for, give the meaning, grease, grease the ways,
grease the wheels, guess, guess right, harangue, hasten, have it,
help along, hit it, hold forth, illuminate, illustrate, interpret,
justify, lecture, legitimate, legitimatize, loose, lubricate,
make clear, make it clear, make out, make plain, make way for,
moralize, oil, open the lock, open the way, open up, palliate,
pave the way, plumb, point a moral, popularize, preach,
prepare the way, psych, psych out, purge, put across, put over,
puzzle out, quicken, rationalize, ravel, ravel out, read a lesson,
rehabilitate, reinstate, remove friction, resolve, restore, riddle,
run interference for, sermonize, shed light upon, show, show how,
show the way, simplify, smooth, smooth the way, soap the ways,
solve, sort out, speed, spell out, throw light upon, unbar,
unblock, unclog, undo, unfold, unjam, unlock, unravel, unriddle,
unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, vindicate, vulgarize,
warrant, work, work out


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  • EXPLAIN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    explain, expound, explicate, elucidate, interpret mean to make something clear or understandable explain implies a making plain or intelligible what is not immediately obvious or entirely known
  • EXPLAIN | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    EXPLAIN definition: 1 to make something clear or easy to understand by describing or giving information about it: 2… Learn more
  • EXPLAIN Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    Explain definition: to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible See examples of EXPLAIN used in a sentence
  • explain verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage . . .
    Definition of explain verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
  • Explanation - Wikipedia
    An explanation is a set of statements usually constructed to describe a set of facts that clarifies the causes, context, and consequences of those facts It may establish rules or laws, and clarifies the existing rules or laws in relation to any objects or phenomena examined [1] In philosophy, an explanation is a set of statements which render understandable the existence or occurrence of an
  • EXPLAIN definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    To explain is to make plain, clear, or intelligible something that is not known or understood: to explain a theory or a problem To elucidate is to throw light on what before was dark and obscure, usually by illustration and commentary and sometimes by elaborate explanation: They asked him to elucidate his statement
  • explain - WordReference. com Dictionary of English
    Explain, elucidate, expound, interpret imply making the meaning of something clear or understandable To explain is to make plain, clear, or intelligible something that is not known or understood: to explain a theory or a problem





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