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explain away

英 [ɪkˈspleɪn əˈweɪ]

美 [ɪkˈspleɪn əˈweɪ]

为…辩解; 搪塞

柯林斯词典

  • PHRASAL VERB 为…辩解;搪塞
    If someoneexplains awaya mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.
    1. He evaded her questions about the war and tried to explain away the atrocities...
      他回避了她有关战争的问题,极力为那些暴行辩解。
    2. I had noticed blood on my husband's clothing but he explained it away.
      我注意到丈夫的衣服上有血迹,但是被他搪塞过去了。

双语例句

  • Don't try to explain away the situation. If you have made mistakes, just admit them.
    不要再分辩了,有错误就承认嘛!
  • Explain away late arrival by blaming it on traffic jam.
    迟到的人喜欢把原因归结为交通阻塞。
  • He tried to explain away his lateness, but we didn't accept his excuse.
    他竭力为自己迟到辩解,但是,我们不相信他的托词。
  • Many of my clients find ways to explain away this feeling of being bored.
    我的许多顾客会找法子来解释那不是无聊的感觉。
  • He tried to explain away the stains on the carpet.
    他试图对地毯上的污点进行辩解。
  • He evaded her questions about the war and tried to explain away the atrocities
    他回避了她有关战争的问题,极力为那些暴行辩解。
  • The dip in orders is that rare piece of bad business news that companies may not be able to explain away by citing the struggling economy.
    现在,许多问题都可以用经济低迷来解释,而套餐购买量减少却是少数几个例外之一。
  • The company, eager to explain away that rather large gap, now attributes it at least in part to the use of a substantially different set of comparable companies to determine our price range as compared to the comparable companies utilized in our valuation report.
    在解释这两者间巨大差距的过程中,LinkedIn认为至少部分原因是因为确定发行价区域时,使用的可比同业组迥异于公司估值报告中采用的可比同业组。
  • That has not deterred economists from trying to explain away the 17th-century Dutch tulip mania as a rational reflection of an acute imbalance of supply and demand for rare bulbs: no matter that the price of garden variety tulips went through the roof, too.
    这并没有阻碍经济学家对17世纪荷兰郁金香泡沫进行辩解,称其是稀有花卉供求急性失衡的合理反映,尽管普通郁金香的价格当时也出现飙升。
  • For most traits, however, these don't seem sufficient to explain away the substantial heritability estimates that are found for traits such as height, reading ability and sensation-seeking.
    然而,对于许多特性,这并不足够的去解释遗传性的实质,评估建立特性,例如身高、阅读能力和感觉探索。