explaining

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ɪkˈspleɪ.nɪŋ]
• 美式音标 [ɪkˈspleɪ.nɪŋ]
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• 美式发音

基本解释

• v. 解释（explain的ing形式）；解释情况

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

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

• the act of explaining or giving a good reason for your actions

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

• 解释

  People keep constructing, or at least explaining the reality based on their own experiences.
  人们是以自己的经验为基础来建构或者说解释现实。

  哲学

• 诠释