explain
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ɪkˈspleɪn]
- 美式音标 [ɪkˈspleɪn]
- 国际音标 [ik'splein]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- vt.说明…的原因,辩解
- vi.说明,解释,辩解
词源解说
- 16世纪10年代进入英语,直接源自古典拉丁语的explanare,意为解释,使清楚;最初源自此语的explane。
词根记忆
- ex(出) + plain(明白的)→明白地说出→解释
用法辨析
- explain的基本意思是“解释,说明”,指把对方不知道、不理解的事以易懂的方式加以说明,使其清楚、明白。
- explain既可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,宾语可以是名词、代词,也可以是带疑问词的动词不定式或that从句,还可以是反身代词,说明自己的意思、动机或行为。
- “向某人说明某事”不用explain sb sth 结构,可用explain sth to sb 表示。
- explain可引出直接引语。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- When you are wrong, don't explain.
错了,你不用解释。 - That explains his absence.
他缺席就是这个原因。 - He explained how to use this instrument.
他解释如何使用这台仪器。 - They began to explain that they had been delayed by the weather.
他们开始解释说,天气使他们耽搁了。 - The enclosed letter will explain what has happened.
附来的信将说明发生的情况。 - “I came by subway,” she explained.
“我是坐地铁来的,”她解释说。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+~(+A)
用作及物动词: S+~+ n./pron.
S+~+wh-to- v
S+~+that-clause
S+~+wh-clause
引出直接引语
词组短语
- explain a difficult problem 解释难题
- explain a foreign passage 解释这段外文
- explain a plan 说明计划
- explain a principle 解释原理
- explain a theory 阐释理论
用作动词 (v.)
~+名词
英英字典
- to make something clear or easy to understand by describing or giving information about it
- If you explain something, you give details about it or describe it so that it can be understood.
- If you explain, or explain something that has happened, you give people reasons for it, especially in an attempt to justify it.
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专业释义
- 疏证
This text also commenced from the vocabulary, and explain the special words which was discovered in reading, depending on ,then seek a more reasonable explanation, and then according to the way of explaination clicks for five categories.
本文也从词汇入手,对在阅读《太平广记》时发现的部分语词进行疏证,并参照《说文解字》,寻求较为合理的解释,然后按疏证的方法归为五类。 - 经典解释学
- 解释
Empirical research indicates that life-cycle model can explain the saving rate in China to some extent.
经验研究发现,生命周期模型能够在一定程度上解释中国的高储蓄率。 - 诠释
The article will explain to people that some essential elements should have had an excellent work of public sculpture by the case of haiwang mansion sculpture in Shenzhen.
通过深圳海王大厦雕塑的案例,文章诠释了做好一个优秀的公共雕塑应该具备的基本条件。哲学
- 诠释
That to say, people in every era can make different explain on the predecessors works from the essence of their life.
这也就是说,每个时代的人们都能够从自己时代的生活世界的本质出发,对前人留下的文本作出不同的诠释。历史学
- 考释
Through explain the“receives rice”event in the content ,the author had demonstrated for everybody at that time were preparing for the war .
通过对《申禀状》内容中收籴糯米事件的考释,笔者给大家展示了当时舒州地区备战北伐的严峻军事形势。计算机科学技术
- 解释
- 解释