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

• 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。
• His desperate efforts to explain away his remarks were unsuccessful.
  他对自己的话拼命辩解也无济于事。
• 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。
• 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！
• To some degree, we may be able to literally explain away many devastating physical problems.
  从某个程度来说，我们也许可以真正地将许多破坏性的身体问题通过解释给消除。
• It filled me with special satisfaction as I had just been doing some detailed textual analysis of the letters that hedge funds have sent out to investors in the last few weeks to explain away their abominable performance in the third quarter.
  这件事让我感到特高兴，因为我刚好在对对冲基金过去几周寄给投资者的信件原文做一些详细分析。这些信是为了解释清楚他们第三季度的业绩为何那么糟糕。
• Which the defense will try to explain away.
  辩方会努力解释那些的。
• 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。
• 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。