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
- 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。