| 单词 | explain |
| 释义 | ex·plain transitive verb 1. a. < promised to explain the secret of his success > b. < a commentary that explains the more difficult passages of the poem > c. < explained the concept in straightforward language > d. < was unable to explain his strange conduct > 2. obsolete < the horse chestnut is … ready to explain its leaf — John Evelyn > 3. a. < explain an intellectual argument > b. < explain natural events > c. < explain a mathematical result > 4. intransitive verb 1. < a poet whose words intimate rather than define, suggest rather than … explain — Irwin Edman > 2. obsolete < the public … begins to explain upon him — Earl of Chesterfield > Synonyms: < explain an inconsistency in a financial report > < there is no comprehensive theory that explains these phenomena > < the mountainous character of Greece explains its division into a crowd of petty states — Edward Clodd > To account (for) suggests a making acceptable by the fitting of the thing to be accounted for into some acceptable scheme (as logical or mathematical consistency, or an order of nature) < their presence could not be accounted for by some temporary catastrophe, such as the Mosaic Flood — S.F.Mason > < the presence of buffalo accounted for the character of the Indian civilizations frontiersmen encountered when they entered the Great Plains — R.A.Billington > < account for the loss of a company's money > To justify is to account for or explain, or attempt to account for or explain, to one's or someone's satisfaction, especially by explaining away guilt or blame < the playhouse was forced to justify itself as a serious cultural endeavor — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < decided after the second day of the hearings that not enough people were watching to justify the expense — Gilbert Seldes > < an opinion justified by the facts > To rationalize in an older sense stresses the idea of something acceptable to reason but in modern use signifies frequently to justify by false, especially self-deceptive, reasoning < cooperation with those from whom we differ is possible only if we rationalize our beliefs and thus make them intelligible to those having different backgrounds — M.R.Cohen > < we rationalize our cumbersome habit, taking for granted or explaining that this custom is intrinsically and logically best — A.L.Kroeber > • - explain oneself |
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