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
- I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I can not explain away afterwards.
我一生未曾犯过错误，至少，没犯过在事后不能解释过去的错误。 - She tried to explain away the missing money.
她试图为丢失的钱辩解。 - 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。 - She managed to explain away my doubts.
她的解释消除了我的怀疑。 - 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。 - These two terms, it is not hard to explain away the reasons for high prices.
这两个词，这不是很难解释离开的原因，高价格。 - 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。 - For a man to excuse himself in this way and stop listening is much better than trying to explain away her hurt.
男人这样先行道歉及停止倾听，比试图去分析她的伤害好得多。 - 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。 - 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。