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。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

She tried to explain but he wouldn't listen.

她试图说明一下原因，可他根本不听。

《牛津词典》

She tried to explain how the system works, but it's all Greek to me.

她努力解释系统如何运作，可我怎么也弄不明白。

《牛津词典》

He was forty years old. Over the years,historians and medical experts have tried to explain the cause of Poe's death.

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I tried to explain, but I got in a fight.

我尝试去解释，但是我还打架了。

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This is not a subject that many media programs have tried to explain to very small children.

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So Netflix's founder and chief executive, Reed Hastings, tried to explain himself and made matters far worse.

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It started when a Stanford professor tried to explain Microsoft's huge success as a market failure.

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As he recounts in his autobiography, Lang tried to explain himself, but his father cut him off.

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