【explain音标】 英[ɪkˈspleɪn] 美[ɪkˈspleɪn]
【单词释义】 explain是什么意思：
vt.&vi.讲解，解释
vt.说明…的原因，辩解
vi.说明，解释，辩解
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] explains
[单词现在分词] explaining
[单词过去式] explained
[单词过去分词] explained
【关联词/派生词】
explanation n.解释；说明
explanatory adj.解释性的；解释的；说明的；阐述的
explicate vt.解释，说明（文章或计划等）
explicable adj.可解释的，可说明的
【explain形近词/近似词】
floodplain n. 洪泛区；泛滥平原
complain v.抱怨；抱怨；控诉
plain n.平原；平地 adj.平的；清楚的;明显的
porcelain n.瓷，瓷器 adj.瓷制的；精美的；脆的，易碎的
【单词例句】
◇ There are other responses like these, but some variation of these statements embodies the typical responses I hear from most people. Fundamentally, the candidate is explaining what they think they are going to get as result of getting this job.
还有些类似的回答，但像上面这样的回答代表了我从大多数求职者那里听来的典型回答。从根本上看，面试者都在解释他们认为受聘后自己能得到什么。
---- Why do you want to work here?
◇ "First, the more saturated the color is, the more it is associated with excitement and stimulation," Franklin explained. "Second, the lighter the color, the more it is associated with calmness and relaxation. Many studies have found that blue and green are also associated with calmness and relaxation (fewer studies find no association)."
富兰克林解释说："首先，颜色越饱满，它就越能引起兴奋和刺激；其次，颜色越浅，就越能让你感到平静和放松；再者，许多研究发现，蓝色和绿色就是‘放松色’的两个典型代表。这一点，很少会有研究否认。”
---- What is the world's most relaxing color?
◇ Speaking to the Smithsonian Mag, Dr Ollie Jay, one of the authors of the study, explained: "If you drink a hot drink, it does result in a lower amount of heat stored inside your body, provided the additional sweat that's produced when you drink the hot drink can evaporate."
在接受《史密森学会杂志》采访时，该研究的作者之一奥利·杰博士解释说：“如果喝热饮，体内储存的热量就会降低，前提是喝热茶时排出的汗水可以蒸发掉。”
---- Drinking hot tea in summer really does cool you down
◇ If you can explain how your ability to self manage will help in this working environment, for example, you're on the right track.
比如说，如果你可以说明你的自我管理能力能够在工作环境中发挥作用，你离正确答案就不远了。
---- Five most common questions asked at a job interview
◇ The inability to explain them led to speculation that gamma-ray bursts were the remnants of nuclear battles between alien civilizations,or even the exhaust energy of extraterrestrial spaceships going into warp drive.
由于无法解释这种现象，因此人们推测这些伽马射线爆炸是外星人之间核战争的遗迹，甚至后来有人认为是外星人飞船偏离轨道后释放的最后能量。
---- The Big Bang
◇ I want a wife who will not bother me with rambling complaints about a wife's duties. But I want a wife who will listen to me when I feel the need to explain a rather difficult point I have come across in my course of studies. And I want a wife who type my papers for me when I have written them.
我想要个妻，她不得对我唠唠叨叨，抱怨不已。而我学习上遇到困难时向她述说，她可得听，我写的论文还待她来誊清。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ When he told me he was leaving I felt like a vase which has just smashed. There were pieces of me all over the tidy, tan tiles. He kept talking, telling me why he was leaving, explaining it was for the best, I could do better, it was his fault and not mine.
当他告诉我他要离开的时候，我感觉自己就像花瓶裂成了碎片，跌落在茶色瓷砖地板上。他一直在说话，解释着为什么要离开，说什么这是最好的，我可以做得更好，都是他的错，与我无关。
---- A Little Piece of Me
◇ One advantage of his icebox, more explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.
莫尔说他的冰箱的一个好处是使得农民们不必在夜里上路去市场以保持他们产品的低温。