听声词典

explain

E 开头单词

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

同根派生

  • adj性质的同根词
    explainable：可辩解的；可说明的。
  • n性质的同根词
    explanation：说明，解释；辩解。

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。

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。

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

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • 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.

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