explain away 搪塞 ; 解释掉 ; 解释
explain away a fault 为过失而辩解
explain away from the point 讲走题了
explain sth away 为某事搪塞 ; 为辩解
She managed to explain away my doubts.
她的解释消除了我的怀疑。
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。
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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