I've digressed a little to explain the situation so far, so let me now recap.

我刚才稍微离题说明了迄今的情况，现在让我重述一下要点。

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She hastened to explain the situation.

她赶忙解释这个情况。

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Explain the situation?

解释这整个情况？

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But I want to start in every example, in every situation that I explain to you, with the simplest example, and slowly add on things.

所以我会都从最简单的例子讲起,在我给你们解释的每一个例子里,都会用最简单的例子,然后慢慢增加难度

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CBS' announcers, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms, were part of the outage and unable to explain the situation to viewers.

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If you and your child are facing difficulty making student loan payments, call the lender, explain the situation and ask them to ease the terms.

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One can imagine as well various conspiracy theories to explain the situation.

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