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
- Which the defense will try to explain away.
辩方会努力解释那些的。 - 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。 - 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! - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。