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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• 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。
• She tried to explain away the missing money.
  她试图为丢失的钱辩解。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• That has not deterred economists from trying to explain away the 17th-century Dutch tulip mania as a rational reflection of an acute imbalance of supply and demand for rare bulbs: no matter that the price of garden variety tulips went through the roof, too.
  这并没有阻碍经济学家对17世纪荷兰郁金香泡沫进行辩解，称其是稀有花卉供求急性失衡的合理反映，尽管普通郁金香的价格当时也出现飙升。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Which the defense will try to explain away.
  辩方会努力解释那些的。