explains

常見例句

用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)

用作不及物動(dòng)詞: S+～(+A)

• When you are wrong, don't explain.
  錯(cuò)了,你不用解釋。
• I don't understand this, please explain.
  我不明白這點(diǎn),請(qǐng)解釋一下。
• Jenny tried to explain.
  詹妮想設(shè)法解釋一下。
• You needn't explain any more.
  你不必再解釋了。

用作及物動(dòng)詞: S+～+ n./pron.

• That explains his absence.
  他缺席就是這個(gè)原因。
• They sent us a letter to explain the delay.
  他們給我們一封信解釋為什么耽擱了。
• Please explain the meaning of the poem.
  請(qǐng)說明這首詩的意思。
• I will try to explain the situation as I see it.
  我將試著根據(jù)我自己的看法講一講形勢(shì)。
• He explained scientifically the most important questions of political economy.
  他科學(xué)地闡述了政治經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)中的一些最重要的問題。
• This can be easily explained.
  這很容易解釋。
• This problem will be explained next time.
  這個(gè)問題下次再作解釋。
• This problem has not yet been satisfactorily explained.
  這個(gè)問題還沒有得到令人滿意的解釋。

S+～+wh-to- v

• He explained how to use this instrument.
  他解釋如何使用這臺(tái)儀器。
• Can you explain why to do it like that?
  你能解釋為什么那樣做嗎?
• They didn't explain where to get it.
  他們沒有說明在什么地方弄到它的。

S+～+that-clause

• They began to explain that they had been delayed by the weather.
  他們開始解釋說,天氣使他們耽擱了。
• I explained that we could stay no longer.
  我說過我們不能再停留了。
• I explained that we were perfectly safe.
  我向他說過我們非常安全。
• The man operating this pump explained that it could supply enough water to irrigate 5000 mu of land.
  開水泵的人說,這個(gè)水泵抽上來的水足夠灌溉五千畝地。

S+～+wh-clause

• The enclosed letter will explain what has happened.
  附來的信將說明發(fā)生的情況。
• The worker explained how the machine worked.
  那位工人講解這臺(tái)機(jī)器如何運(yùn)用。
• He explained how the machine was used.
  他給我們講解這機(jī)器怎么使用。
• She tried to explain why she had stayed out so late.
  她設(shè)法解釋她為什么在外面呆這么晚的原因。

引出直接引語

• “I came by subway,” she explained.
  “我是坐地鐵來的,”她解釋說。

更多例句

雙語例句

• What explains all this?
  怎么解釋這一切？
• He explains this regulation to me word for word.
  他逐字逐句地替我解釋這項(xiàng)條例。
  《新英漢大辭典》
• But once you know the pattern then it explains what these relationships are about.
  但你一旦理解了模式，他就會(huì)解釋這些關(guān)系是關(guān)于什么的。

原聲例句

• The National Humanities Center in North Carolina explains on its Web site that the newspaper was banned for three reasons.
• The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.
  史詩也解釋并且映射了巴比倫王國(guó)的興起,它是古代近東繁盛的城市之一。
  耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
• Now Milton explains that he has nothing now, of course, to show for his father's investment, but he will.
  彌爾頓是在說他現(xiàn)在沒有可以證明，他父親投資的東西，但是他會(huì)證明的。
  耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

權(quán)威例句

• Such guarantees can be used by a plaintiff to get at your personal assets, he explains.
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• Noncompetes are banned in California — which partly explains the huge turnover among engineers and scientists there.
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• As Vann Nah explains in his book, he was only spared because he was a reasonably competent artist.
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