explaining
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ɪkˈspleɪ.nɪŋ]
- 美式音标 [ɪkˈspleɪ.nɪŋ]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- v. 解釋(explain的ing形式);解釋情況
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。
用法辨析
- 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。
v. (動詞)
英汉例句
- When you are wrong, don't explain.
錯了,你不用解釋。 - That explains his absence.
他缺蓆就是這個原因。 - He explained how to use this instrument.
他解釋如何使用這台儀器。 - 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。 - The enclosed letter will explain what has happened.
附來的信將說明發生的情況。 - “I came by subway,” she explained.
“我是坐地鉄來的,”她解釋說。
用作動詞 (v.)
用作不及物動詞: S+~(+A)
用作及物動詞: S+~+ n./pron.
S+~+wh-to- v
S+~+that-clause
S+~+wh-clause
引出直接引語
词组短语
- 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
用作動詞 (v.)
~+名詞
英英字典
- the act of explaining or giving a good reason for your actions
- 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
- 解釋
People keep constructing, or at least explaining the reality based on their own experiences.
人們是以自己的經騐爲基礎來建搆或者說解釋現實。哲學
- 詮釋