柯林斯英汉双解大词典
explain away ( explaining, explained, explains )
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PHRASAL VERB If someone explains away a 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. 为…辩解
例：He evaded her questions about the war and tried to explain away the atrocities.
他回避了她关于战争的提问，试图为其暴行辩解。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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She managed to explain away my doubts.
她的解释消除了我的怀疑。
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Such people are so afraid of being labeled a failure at anything that they constantly develop one handicap or another in order to explain away failure.
这些人在任何事情上都非常害怕被标记为失败者，以至于为了给自己的失败开脱而不断制造出这样或那样的障碍。
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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！
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I'm not the kind of person who makes it his business to try to explain away those things in physicalist, naturalistic, materialistic, scientific terms.
我不是那种,喜欢用物理主义,自然主义,唯物主义的科学角度,来解释东西的人
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