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

• 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 tried to explain away his lateness, but we didn't accept his excuse.
  他竭力为自己迟到辩解，但是，我们不相信他的托词。
• Many of my clients find ways to explain away this feeling of being bored.
  我的许多顾客会找法子来解释那不是无聊的感觉。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She managed to explain away my doubts.
  她的解释消除了我的怀疑。