explain away

英 [ɪkˈspleɪn əˈweɪ]

美 [ɪkˈspleɪn əˈweɪ]

为…辩解; 搪塞

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 为…辩解；搪塞
  If someoneexplains awaya 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.
  1. He evaded her questions about the war and tried to explain away the atrocities...
     他回避了她有关战争的问题，极力为那些暴行辩解。
  2. I had noticed blood on my husband's clothing but he explained it away.
     我注意到丈夫的衣服上有血迹，但是被他搪塞过去了。

双语例句

• That has not deterred economists from trying to explain away the 17th-century Dutch tulip mania as a rational reflection of an acute imbalance of supply and demand for rare bulbs: no matter that the price of garden variety tulips went through the roof, too.
  这并没有阻碍经济学家对17世纪荷兰郁金香泡沫进行辩解，称其是稀有花卉供求急性失衡的合理反映，尽管普通郁金香的价格当时也出现飙升。
• Despite internal warning signs, leaders fixate on positive external results to explain away the growing array of negative data, or define problems as passing, temporary ones.
  尽管企业内部已经出现了危机的征兆，但领导者仍热衷于外部喜讯，并借此为不断增长的负面数据开脱，或是把问题定义为偶然和暂时的。
• But he does not just admit oneself is, always tries to explain away for oneself.
  可是他偏偏却不承认自己是，总会为自己辩解。
• China can no longer explain away inflation as a short-term result of floods and epidemics of animal disease nor can it ignore the strains its macroeconomic policies are producing.
  中国再也无法用洪水的短期影响和牲畜传染病来解释通胀，同时也不能再对宏观经济政策造成的紧张视若无睹。
• For a man to excuse himself in this way and stop listening is much better than trying to explain away her hurt.
  男人这样先行道歉及停止倾听，比试图去分析她的伤害好得多。
• You will find it difficult to explain away your use of such offensive language.
  你使用这样无礼的语言是很难说得过去的。
• To some degree, we may be able to literally explain away many devastating physical problems.
  从某个程度来说，我们也许可以真正地将许多破坏性的身体问题通过解释给消除。
• The company, eager to explain away that rather large gap, now attributes it at least in part to the use of a substantially different set of comparable companies to determine our price range as compared to the comparable companies utilized in our valuation report.
  在解释这两者间巨大差距的过程中，LinkedIn认为至少部分原因是因为确定发行价区域时，使用的可比同业组迥异于公司估值报告中采用的可比同业组。
• Until now, attempts to explain away the lithium problem have involved secondary modifications of the amount around.
  直到现在，极力解开锂之难题的尝试牵涉到了元素量的二次变异。
• When defects are triaged and reviewed, we often explain away the reasons for the defect.
  当缺陷被修复和评审的时候，我们经常为缺陷自圆其说。