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单词 unexplained
释义
unexplainedun‧ex‧plained /ˌʌnɪkˈspleɪnd◂/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • For years, Sukhbir's death remained unexplained.
  • He wants to move to Georgia for some unexplained reason.
  • The death of his first wife remains unexplained.
  • There had been three unexplained fires at the school in the previous six months.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • About six months after Mr Reynolds' first premonition, he experienced unexplained noises, mainly thumping and banging.
  • I looked at her across the counter and tried to detect some glimmer of unexplained Highland intuition.
  • In 1978, in Providence, Rhode Island, disturbances broke out after an unexplained murder of a black man by police.
  • Next day Jack pondered the mystery of the unexplained footsteps and laid plans to catch the intruder.
  • On one occasion excreta was placed in the fridge and there was an unexplained minor fire.
  • Science should explain the observed, not deny the unexplained.
  • The court may then find that, if unexplained, it is irrational.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomething that has never been solved
· All too often, crimes of violence are left unsolved.· What happened to the men on the expedition will always be an unsolved mystery.
an event or fact that is unexplained has never been explained so no one knows exactly what happened: · For years, Sukhbir's death remained unexplained.· There had been three unexplained fires at the school in the previous six months.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· Did he give a reason for his unexplained absence?
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Even films being co-produced with state-owned companies and the military were held up or banned for unexplained reasons.
Word family
WORD FAMILYadjectiveunexplainedexplanatoryexplicableinexplicablenounexplainingexplanationverbexplainadverbinexplicably
something that is unexplained is something you cannot understand because you do not know the reason for it:  patients with unexplained symptoms For some unexplained reason, he wants to move to Ipswich.
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