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
- 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。 - My mind went into such a spin-control mode, trying to explain away what he'd said.
我的脑子立即进入扭转控制阶段，试图为他的话进行解密。 - 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。 - 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。 - Explain away late arrival by blaming it on traffic jam.
迟到的人喜欢把原因归结为交通阻塞。 - 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。 - He tried to explain away the stains on the carpet.
他试图对地毯上的污点进行辩解。 - 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！ - 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。