| 释义 |
▪ I. exˈplaining, vbl. n.
[f. explain + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. explain; † an explanation.
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 383 This Sonnet, which might serue as an explaining to the other. 1656H. Phillips Purch. Patt. (1676) 175 The Table is so plain it needs no explaining. 1721R. Bradley Wks. Nat. 110 No more than the unfolding and explaining of their Parts one after another. 1740Watts Remnants of Time §21, I am quite tired..of these human explainings, so various and uncertain.
▪ II. explaining, ppl. a.|ɛkˈspleɪnɪŋ|
[f. explain + -ing2.]
That explains or makes clear.
1850Mrs. Browning Poems I. 261 Ere her last Explaining words were said.
Hence exˈplainingly adv.
1889Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 684/2 ‘Black Prince—the name of my horse,’ she added explainingly. |