| 词组 | explain |
| 释义 | explain [explained, explained, explaining] explain 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. |
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