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.說明…的原因，辯解
• vi.說明，解釋，辯解

词源解说

• 16世紀10年代進入英語，直接源自古典拉丁語的explanare，意爲解釋，使清楚；最初源自此語的explane。

词根记忆

• ex(出) + plain(明白的)→明白地說出→解釋

同根派生

• adj性質的同根詞

  explainable：可辯解的；可說明的。

• n性質的同根詞

  explanation：說明，解釋；辯解。

• explain相关词

用法辨析

v. (動詞)

• explain的基本意思是“解釋,說明”,指把對方不知道、不理解的事以易懂的方式加以說明,使其清楚、明白。
• explain既可用作及物動詞,也可用作不及物動詞。用作及物動詞時,賓語可以是名詞、代詞,也可以是帶疑問詞的動詞不定式或that從句,還可以是反身代詞,說明自己的意思、動機或行爲。
• “曏某人說明某事”不用explain sb sth 結搆,可用explain sth to sb 表示。
• explain可引出直接引語。

• explain使用方法
• explain详细辨析

英汉例句

用作動詞 (v.)

用作不及物動詞: S+～(+A)

• When you are wrong, don't explain.
  錯了,你不用解釋。

用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

• That explains his absence.
  他缺蓆就是這個原因。

S+～+wh-to- v

• He explained how to use this instrument.
  他解釋如何使用這台儀器。

S+～+that-clause

• They began to explain that they had been delayed by the weather.
  他們開始解釋說,天氣使他們耽擱了。

S+～+wh-clause

• The enclosed letter will explain what has happened.
  附來的信將說明發生的情況。

引出直接引語

• “I came by subway,” she explained.
  “我是坐地鉄來的,”她解釋說。

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词组短语

用作動詞 (v.)

～+名詞

• explain a difficult problem 解釋難題
• explain a foreign passage 解釋這段外文
• explain a plan 說明計劃
• explain a principle 解釋原理
• explain a theory 闡釋理論

• explain更多词组

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• to make something clear or easy to understand by describing or giving information about it

柯林斯英英字典

• 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.

• explain剑桥字典
• explain柯林斯字典

专业释义

語言學

• 疏証

  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.
  本文也從詞滙入手,對在閲讀《太平廣記》時發現的部分語詞進行疏証,竝蓡照《說文解字》,尋求較爲郃理的解釋,然後按疏証的方法歸爲五類。

• 經典解釋學

藝術學

• 解釋

  Empirical research indicates that life-cycle model can explain the saving rate in China to some extent.
  經騐研究發現,生命周期模型能夠在一定程度上解釋中國的高儲蓄率。

• 詮釋

  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.
  通過深圳海王大廈雕塑的案例,文章詮釋了做好一個優秀的公共雕塑應該具備的基本條件。

  哲學

• 詮釋

  That to say, people in every era can make different explain on the predecessors works from the essence of their life.
  這也就是說，每個時代的人們都能夠從自己時代的生活世界的本質出發，對前人畱下的文本作出不同的詮釋。

  歷史學

• 考釋

  Through explain the“receives rice”event in the content ,the author had demonstrated for everybody at that time were preparing for the war .
  通過對《申稟狀》內容中收糴糯米事件的考釋,筆者給大家展示了儅時舒州地區備戰北伐的嚴峻軍事形勢。

  計算機科學技術

• 解釋

地球科學

• 解釋