Had I realized what you intended I should not have wasted my time trying to explain matters to you.

如果我了解你的意图我就不会浪费时间向你解释了。间向你解释了。

youdao

Our residents are not very well-educated so we have to explain [matters] to them.

我们的居民没有受过很好的教育，所以要想他们解释。

youdao

But even the researcher behind the study say their finding will not explain all cases of ADHD, and that a child's environment also matters.

虽然研究人员认为他们的发现还无法解释所有的多动症病例，但是认为儿童生活的环境也与多动症的产生有重要关系。

youdao

No,it's not going to be that. But it does need to basically provide the common talking points so that allied leaders, allied presidents and prime ministers, have on one sheet of paper,one page, a set of common talking points that they can speak from to their people to explain why the alliance matters.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

Charts, maps and models which are used to demonstrate or explain matters are not evidence themselves, but testimony based upon such items and marks on such material may be evidence.

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After his presentation on his robotics research, I cornered Brian Scasselati of Yale University to see if he could explain why it matters so much that robots appeal to humans.

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Even when they do not, he never tries to explain why a variable matters.

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