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
- He tried to explain away the stains on the carpet.
他试图对地毯上的污点进行辩解。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 1 don't know how you're going to explain away that dent you made in your dad's car.
我不知道你将如何解释清楚你在你爸爸车上弄的凹痕。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。
