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词汇 explained
释义 explained
past simple and past participle ofexplain
explain
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ɪkˈspleɪn/ us /ɪkˈspleɪn/
A2
to make something clear or easy to understand by describing or giving information about it: 解释;说明;阐明
If there's anything you don't understand, I'll be happy to explain.如果你有什么不懂的地方,我会很乐意为你讲解。
explain something to someoneThe teacher explained the rules to the children.老师向孩子们说明规则。
[ + question word ]Our guide explained where the cathedral was.导游给我们讲解了大教堂的位置。
He explained how the machine worked.他解释了这台机器的工作原理。
Please could you explain why you're so late.你能否解释一下你迟到这么久的原因?
[ + that ]She explained that she was going to stay with her sister.她解释说她要去和妹妹一起住。
[ + speech ]"Someone must have hit the wrong button," an official explained.“一定有人误碰了按钮,”一位官员解释说。
Molly asked the teacher if she could explain herself a little more clearly (= say more clearly what she meant).莫莉请求老师能否讲得更清楚些。
No one has been able to explain (= give the reason for) the accident.还没有人能解释事故的原因。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to explain something
explainCan you explain that again?
clarifyLet me just clarify what I mean here.
defineYour responsibilities are clearly defined in the contract.
set outYour contract will set out the terms of your employment.
set forthThe terms of the statute are set forth in Section I, Article 3.
spell outThey sent me a letter spelling out the details of the agreement.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to answer someone
answer"Thank you", she answered.
replyThe man replied that something was missing.
respondWe aim to respond to all enquiries within five working days.
reactHe reacted positively to the proposal.
get back toI'll look into it and get back to you.
explain"What happened?" she asked. - "There's no time to explain!" he said.
 explain yourself
to give reasons for your behaviour: 为自己的行为作出说明(或解释)
He hadn't been home for three days so I asked him to explain himself.他一连3天没有回家,所以我要他解释一下怎么回事儿。
I'm not going to explain myself to someone who has never done a day's work in their life.
If they get the video, you'll be explaining yourself to a police officer in the very near future.
If they catch us in here, we're going to have a hard time explaining ourselves.
Why would you do such a thing? Go ahead - explain yourselves.
She tried to explain what had happened but he kept interrupting her.她试图解释所发生的事情,但他不停地打断她。
Any decent teacher should be able to explain the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
Pay attention to what she's saying because she won't explain it a second time.注意听她讲,因为她不会再解释第二遍。
She painstakingly explained how the machine worked.她悉心地解释这台机器是如何运转的。
This booklet about the project explains things in an easy, non-technical way.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Defining & explaining
account (to someone) for something
accountability
adumbrate
adumbration
annotation
annotator
belabour
demythologize
excuse
extenuate
indefinably
indescribably
inexpressibly
justificatory
lay something out
outline
sketch
spell
walk through something
what is he, are they, etc. like?idiom

Grammar



Explain
We use the verb explain to mean ‘make something clear or easy to understand, by describing or giving information about it’. …

Phrasal verb


explain something away

Examples of explained


explained

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The qualitative and quantitative relationship between these maps will be explained by the surgery construction in the next section.
The finding of differential effects on items of the same length cannot be explained by a purely quantitative constraint on storage.
These could be explained in purely psychological terms.
As explained, these representations result from the nature of visual processing.
The large number of small parties is usually explained in two ways.
Technical terms are generally explained or removed and layouts include larger fonts, and more visual material than standard books.
These disparities could be explained by the different roles that livestock plays in different settings.
In these cases, strong responses differ substantially in measured amplitude in a way that is most readily explained as the result of eye-movements.
I believe that the normative responses to reasoning tasks as well as the systematic deviations from them can be explained within a single reasoning system.
Although all the regression models were significant, the explained variance varied greatly by the type of leisure activity.
The strong association between the two traits may not be explained solely by the common developmental pathways.
Objects and persons become named and explained during the sleep-to-waking transition.
They would not have come otherwise, he explained, as many had no personal means of transport and their ejidos were not serviced by public transport.
One of the uses of dynamic predicates is memoization: this is explained with an example.
Good recognition of a previously unseen prototype can be explained by its relatively large mean similarity to exemplars in its class.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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