Explain

[ɪk'spleɪn;ek-] or [ɪk'splen]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) make plain and comprehensible; 'He explained the laws of physics to his students'.

(verb.) define; 'The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean'.

編輯:凯利--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

(a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.

(v. i.) To give an explanation.

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Interpret, elucidate, expound, illustrate, unfold, solve, ECLAIRCIZE, clear up, make plain, throw light upon.

v. n. Account, give a reason, give an explanation.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Expound, teach, illustrate, clear_up, interpret, elucidate, decipher

ANT:Mystify, obscure, darken, bewilder, misinterpret

編輯:罗德里克

解釋/意思:

v.t. to make plain or intelligible: to unfold and illustrate the meaning of: to expound: to account for.—adj. Explain′able that may be explained or cleared up.—ns. Explain′er one who explains; Explanā′tion act of explaining or clearing from obscurity: that which explains or clears up: the meaning or sense given to anything: a mutual clearing up of matters.—adv. Explan′atorily.—adj. Explan′atory serving to explain or clear up: containing explanations.—Explain away to modify the force of by explanation generally in a bad sense.

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