“我当时必须来找你。”他解释道。

'I had to see you,' he said, by way of explanation.

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他解释说注意力分散是因为有家庭问题。

He pleaded family problems for his lack of concentration.

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他解释了一个语法要点。

He elucidated a point of grammar.

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For example, he begins by borrowing the Russian formalist distinction in trying to explain what fiction is between plot and story.

举个例子，他开篇在解释那种文体介于情节和故事之间时,借用了俄国结构主义的特点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is 65. I'm sorry. In this letter Buddy explains to Zooey what he and Seymour have been trying to do.

是在65页，抱歉，那封信里，巴蒂向左伊解释,他和西莫一直试图做的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You'll find Eve in Book Nine of Paradise Lost voicing essentially this same sentiment when she's explaining to Adam why she needs to work separately.

你会在失乐园第十部看到夏娃说出了实际上是,同样的意见，当她向亚当解释,她需要和他分开工作的时候。

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