| 词汇 | explain away |
| 释义 | Idiom explain awayexplain away (something) to invent reasons why something is unimportant.You will find it hard to explain away all these mistakes.Rather than face the truth, we try to explain it away. Phr V explain away explains, explaining, explained explain away sth or explain sth away to give a reason for something bad happening which makes other people think that it is not so bad or that it is not your faultSix hundred pounds is missing - try explaining that away. explain away sth • explain sth away to give reasons for a mistake you made or something bad that happened, to try and make people think it is not your fault or not very serious: David wondered how he would explain away the accident. NATO had a hard time explaining away the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Unemployment was at its highest level ever, and the figures were not easily explained away.+ as Dad's sickness could no longer be explained away as the flu. explain awayTo try to minimize a problem or issue through explanation. A noun or pronoun can be used between "explain" and "away." He's trying to explain it away, but I know he lied to me. explain something awayto explain something so that it is no longer a problem. You can try to explain it away if you want, but that won't solve the problem. You can't just explain away all your problems. explain awayDismiss or minimize the importance of something, especially something detrimental. For example, "His words were taken down, and though he tried to explain them away, he was sent to the Tower" (Thomas Macaulay, The History of England, 1855). [c. 1700] explain awayv. To dismiss or minimize the significance of something by explanation: The candidate tried to explain his earlier misstatements away. The researcher explained away the criticisms that were raised against her hypothesis. |
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