explain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 解释， 说明，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its under-going any intermediate process of change not a knocker, but Marley's face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was told me by the Bank that the gentleman would explain to me the details of the business, and that I must prepare myself to find them of a surprising nature.
-- 'He tried to explain to me how that quarrel had arisen, and he said that, so far as he could judge, it was a wrong and foolish one on England's part.
-- said Miss Pross, 'it doesn't need an interpreter to explain the meaning of these creatures.
-- 'It would be troublesome, and might be dangerous, to explain in the street.
-- Sydney Carton, who, with Mr. Lorry, had been lost in amazement at this turn of the business, here requested Mr. Cruncher to moderate and explain himself.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wherever I go, I am pursued by a long-ing that is insatiable that I cannot explain to myself, and that tears my very heart.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Excuse me a minute..." A secretary came in, with respectful familiarity and the modest consciousness, characteristic of every secretary, of superiority to his chief in the knowledge of their business; he went up to Oblonsky with some papers, and began, under pretense of asking a question, to explain some objection.
-- How do you explain the sudden way in which you vanished from Moscow?
-- But I don't want to talk of myself, and besides I can't explain it all," said Stepan Arkadyevitch.
-- "Konstantin Dmitrievitch," she said to him, "do explain to me, please, what's the meaning of it.
-- "I think," he went on, "that this attempt of the spiritualists to explain their marvels as some sort of new natural force is most futile.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have been difficult to explain why he was on board without awakening Passepartout's suspicions, who thought him still at Bombay.
-- But if Fix had been able to explain this purely physical effect, Passepartout would not have admitted, even if he had comprehended it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He pictured himself telling Madeline about it, concluding, "I just said to her quietly, 'My dear young woman, I don't know that you are the person to whom I have to explain my mission here,' I said, and she wilted."
-- Explain to him, also to his stricken and anxious family, the hard work and thought you are giving to his case, and so make him feel that the good you have done him, or intend to do him, is even greater than the fee you plan to charge.
-- She said that Bert was what he was, and tried to explain to Martin the matter of Sam Petchek.
-- With this sadness there was envy that he should be left out of things, that others should go ahead of him, ever surer in technique, more widely aware of the phenomena of biological chemistry, more deeply daring to explain laws at which the pioneers had but fumbled and hinted.
-- He was summoned into the reception- room of the department to explain to angry citizens why the garage next door to them should smell of gasoline; he went back to his cubbyhole to dictate letters to school-principals about dental clinics; he drove out to Swede Hollow to see what attention the food and dairy inspector had given to the slaughterhouses; he ordered a family in Shantytown quarantined; and escaped at last into the laboratory.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the words of a Russian critic, who seeks to explain the feeling inspired by Dostoevsky: 'He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more deeply than we have his insight impresses us as wisdom 芒聙娄 that wisdom of the heart which we seek that we may learn from it how to live.
-- This sum (now I can explain it all to you, my precious Rodya) she took chiefly in order to send you sixty roubles, which you needed so terribly then and which you received from us last year.
-- He could never understand and explain to himself why, when he was tired and worn out, when it would have been more convenient for him to go home by the shortest and most direct way, he had returned by the Hay Market where he had no need to go.
-- 'Allow me to explain that I have been living with her for nearly three years and at first 芒聙娄 at first 芒聙娄 for why should I not confess it, at the very beginning I promised to marry her daughter, it was a verbal promise, freely given 芒聙娄 she was a girl 芒聙娄 indeed, I liked her, though I was not in love with her 芒聙娄 a youthful affair in fact 芒聙娄 that is, I mean to say, that my landlady gave me credit freely in those days, and I led a life of 芒聙娄 I was very heedless 芒聙娄' 'Nobody asks you for these personal details, sir, we've no time to waste,' Ilya Petrovitch interposed roughly and with a note of triumph; but Raskolnikov stopped him hotly, though he suddenly found it exceedingly difficult to speak.
-- It is for me to explain 芒聙娄 how it all happened 芒聙娄 In my turn 芒聙娄 though I agree with you 芒聙娄 it is unnecessary.
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