橘子朗文词典

explain away

E 开头单词

基本解释

  • 通過解釋消除

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.
    我的一生中從來沒有犯過錯誤；至少沒有事後解釋不清的錯誤。
  • Some researchers have started using it to explain away the twin cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
    一些研究者已經開始利用它來解釋暗物質和暗能量這兩個伴生的宇宙學之謎。
  • The idea of a Nilotic invasion was a way to explain away the existence of sophisticated kingdoms in the heart of Africa.
    尼羅河人入侵的說法是爲何在非洲心髒地帶存在如此複襍的王國的一種解釋而已。

    • 原聲例句

  • I'm not the kind of person who makes it his business to try to explain away those things in physicalist, naturalistic, materialistic, scientific terms.
    我不是那種,喜歡用物理主義,自然主義,唯物主義的科學角度,來解釋東西的人
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    • 權威例句

  • Differences in accounting standards often explain away some differences in valuation between U.S. and foreign stocks.
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  • Just imagine how a smooth-talking Streeter could explain away a lousy year in other fields.
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  • So they have come up with their own creative conspiracy theory to explain away the improvement.
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词组短语

    短語

  • explain sth away 爲某事搪塞;爲辯解
  • explain n away 搪塞
  • Unable to explain oneself away 無以自解
  • explain away a fault 爲過失而辯解
  • explain away from the point 講走題了

英英字典

    柯林斯英英字典

  • If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.