explains

基本解释

• v. 解释；说明（explain的三单形式）

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。

同根派生

• explains相关词

用法辨析

v. (动词)

• 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。

• explains使用方法
• explains详细辨析

英汉例句

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

• When you are wrong, don't explain.
  错了,你不用解释。

用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

• That explains his absence.
  他缺席就是这个原因。

S+～+wh-to- v

• He explained how to use this instrument.
  他解释如何使用这台仪器。

S+～+that-clause

• 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。

S+～+wh-clause

• The enclosed letter will explain what has happened.
  附来的信将说明发生的情况。

引出直接引语

• “I came by subway,” she explained.
  “我是坐地铁来的,”她解释说。

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词组短语

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• 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

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英英字典

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.

• explains剑桥字典
• explains柯林斯字典

专业释义

语言学

• 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

艺术学

• 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

地球科学

• 解释