英语释义

1. to get rid of by or as if by explanation

2. to minimize the significance of by or as if by explanation
explains his faults, but does not try to explain them away
— M. K. Spears

片语

Unable to explain oneself away无以自解

explain away from the point讲走题了

explain sth away为某事搪塞

explain n away搪塞

explain away a fault为过失而辩解

英汉例句

• the murder suspect couldn「t explain away his fingerprints at the scene.

  这个杀人嫌疑犯解释不清为什么在杀人现场会留有他的指纹。

• in the ensuing two weeks, lott was buried under an avalanche of criticism and condemnation. his desperate efforts to explain away his remarks were unsuccessful.

  在此之后的两周中，洛特淹没在了雪崩似的批评与谴责中，他对自己的话拼命辩解也无济于事。

• i didn」t believe her at first, but she managed to explain away my doubts.

  我起初不相信她，但她的解释消除了我的猜疑。

• i didn「t believe her at first, but she managed to explain away my doubts.

  起初我不相信她，可是她的解释消除了我的怀疑。

• this evident truth could spur teachers to greater efforts to lean against that wind; instead, it is generally used to explain away poor children’s weaker performance.

  这赤裸真理能激励教师尽更大努力来借这股风；相反，它通常会为贫困学生的不佳表现辩解。

• how can she explain away her error?

  她是怎样把错误解释过去的?。

• the idea of a nilotic invasion was a way to explain away the existence of sophisticated kingdoms in the heart of africa.

  尼罗河人入侵的说法是为何在非洲心脏地带存在如此复杂的王国的一种解释而已。

• citing 16 known deaths and hundreds of injuries, it alleged that 「neither driver error nor floor mats can explain away many other frightening instances of runaway toyotas.」

  该公司引证已知的16人死亡、数百人受伤为例，声称「司机过错或脚垫的问题无法解释许多其他丰田车失控的可怕案例。」

• most of us condemn, or explain away or justify - we never look without justification or condemnation.

  我们大部分人都在谴责或解释或判断，我们看着自己的时候从来不能不谴责或不判断。

• a man never intends to make matters worse. his tendency to explain away feelings is just martian instinct.

  男人从不把事情弄糟，他的解释倾向完全是火星人的本能。

• for a man to excuse himself in this way and stop listening is much better than trying to explain away her hurt.

  男人这样先行道歉及停止倾听，比试图去分析她的伤害好得多。

• china can no longer explain away inflation as a short-term result of floods and epidemics of animal disease – nor can it ignore the strains its macroeconomic policies are producing.

  中国再也无法用洪水的短期影响和牲畜传染病来解释通胀，同时也不能再对宏观经济政策造成的紧张视若无睹。

• coke tried to explain away claims like 「vitamins + water = all you need」 as 「only puffery.」 the judge disagreed.

  可口可乐公司试图辩解，他们所声称的「维生素+水=你所需要的全部」不是一种「吹嘘」，对此，法官给予了驳斥。

• you will find it difficult to explain away your use of such offensive language.

  你将会发现你很难为说过这种无理的话辩解。

• one woman said it this way: 「don」t try to use logic to explain away her feelings.」

  一位女士曾经这样说：「不要试图用逻辑来解释她的感受。」

• efficient market theory has spent decades trying to explain away data that show value investing strategies outperforming growth strategies in the stock market.

  有效市场投资理论花了数十年时间试图解析股市里反应价值投资策略优于成长投资策略的数据。

• some researchers have started using it to explain away the twin cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

  一些研究者已经开始利用它来解释暗物质和暗能量这两个伴生的宇宙学之谜。

• it「s tempting to try to explain away a bad grade or low gpa by putting the blame on someone else.

  貌似将糟糕的成绩或较低的gpa归咎于别人是个不错的选择。

• behind them is the curtained-off 「spin room」, containing seven platforms from which the candidates’ spin doctors will strive later to explain away flubs and claim victory for their own man or woman.

  他们之后就是被帘幕遮住的「幕僚室」，内设七个平台，不久后竞选人的高级幕僚将会在那为各自的竞选人出谋划策，推脱过错，发出胜利的宣言。

• katrina was partly the result of a normal weather cycle, but that cannot explain away stronger hurricanes world wide.

  卡特里娜，部分原因是由于有这样的天气正常循环，但不能自圆其说，更强的飓风世界各地。

• this can explain why people think they’ve been to places they never have, and many other feelings of that nature; this can also explain away almost all if not all of the chakra cases.

  这可以解释为什么人们会认为一些从未来过的地方却似曾相识，以及很多其他的对自然的感应；这个理论也能将轮穴的观点揭示个七七八八。

• to help explain away this bad news, many in the media pointed to the euro crisis.

  为了解释这种糟糕的情况，媒体纷纷指向欧元危机。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

相似词

attribute归属；把…归于

explain说明；解释

rationalize实行合理化；作辩解；合理地思考