| 单词 | solve |
| 释义 | solve transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. a. < the members of these commissions … solve administrative difficulties, and save the state money — American Guide Series: Delaware > b. 3. a. b. 4. intransitive verb Synonyms: < the mystery and disquieting meaninglessness of existence … were solved for me now — L.P.Smith > < create a difficulty rather than solve one — A.M.Young > resolve, as contrasted with solve, is likely to indicate analytic arrangement and consideration of the various phases or items of a problem or situation rather than finding a final solution or answer and is likely to suggest dispelling of confusion or perplexity by a clear formulation of questions or issues < you may find it of some interest to be told that the law has had to struggle with these problems and to know how it has resolved them — B.N.Cardozo > In some situations this process may achieve an answer, especially a ready or summary one < he was at the same time resolving successive tangles of intrigue against himself and his policy — Hilaire Belloc > < it was realized that the method of resolving apparent contradictions by liquidating one of the contradictories is not the way to arrive at true solutions — Times Literary Supplement > unfold indicates continuous opening up, clarifying, making more and more clear and patent until a full solution or resolution is apparent < went around and through and behind a situation, unfolding it … to include possibilities he hadn't known were upon its horizon — Mary Austin > < saw the great truth of evolution unfolded — Waldemar Kaempffert > < the method of unfolding the course of a plot must in some ways be different in a play meant for acting and in a book meant for reading — C.E.Montague > unravel stresses the notion of making a clear and orderly rearrangement of something entangled or a simple ordering of something complicated, especially by patient endeavor < the details are difficult to unravel at this distance of time — H.O.Taylor > < a whole elaborate plot may be unravelled by discovering the one relevant detail — W.O.Aydelotte > decipher stresses the notion of finding the meaning or significance of something very obscure, clouded, cryptic, or enigmatic < placing of a writer or other artist in his proper rank or in deciphering the less obvious intentions of his work — C.E.Montague > < the results, so far as they could be deciphered from the puzzling procedure and twisted combinations, confirmed what had gone before — Atlantic > |
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