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.- 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。 - 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。
- He evaded her questions about the war and tried to explain away the atrocities...
双语例句
- 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。 - You will find it difficult to explain away your use of such offensive language.
你使用这样无礼的语言是很难说得过去的。 - My mind went into such a spin-control mode, trying to explain away what he'd said.
我的脑子立即进入扭转控制阶段,试图为他的话进行解密。 - When defects are triaged and reviewed, we often explain away the reasons for the defect.
当缺陷被修复和评审的时候,我们经常为缺陷自圆其说。 - But he does not just admit oneself is, always tries to explain away for oneself.
可是他偏偏却不承认自己是,总会为自己辩解。 - 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。 - 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。 - Until now, attempts to explain away the lithium problem have involved secondary modifications of the amount around.
直到现在,极力解开锂之难题的尝试牵涉到了元素量的二次变异。 - Despite internal warning signs, leaders fixate on positive external results to explain away the growing array of negative data, or define problems as passing, temporary ones.
尽管企业内部已经出现了危机的征兆,但领导者仍热衷于外部喜讯,并借此为不断增长的负面数据开脱,或是把问题定义为偶然和暂时的。 - Which the defense will try to explain away.
辩方会努力解释那些的。