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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I took him into the room I had just left, and, having set the lamp on the table, asked him as civilly as I could to explain himself.
-- Becoming alarmed, I entreated Mr. Wopsle to explain his meaning.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, I had learnt their alphabet, and could make a shift to explain a sentence here and there; for Glumdalclitch had been my instructor while we were at home, and at leisure hours during our journey.
-- To explain the manner of its progress, let A B represent a line drawn across the dominions of Balnibarbi, let the line c d represent the loadstone, of which let d be the repelling end, and c the at-tracting end, the island being over C: let the stone be placed in position c d, with its repelling end downwards; then the island will be driven upwards obliquely towards D. When it is arrived at D, let the stone be turned upon its axle, till its attracting end points towards E, and then the island will be carried obliquely towards E; where, if the stone be again turned upon its axle till it stands in the position E F, with its repelling point downwards, the island will rise obliquely towards F, where, by directing the attracting end towards G, 211the island may be carried to G, and from G to H, by turn-ing the stone, so as to make its repelling extremity to point directly downward.
-- I could not forbear admiring at these odd appearances, both in town and country; and I made bold to desire my conductor, that he would be pleased to explain to me, what could be meant by so many busy heads, hands, and faces, both in the streets and the fields, because I did not discover any good effects they produced; but, on the contrary, I never knew a soil so unhappily cul-tivated, houses so ill contrived and so ruinous, or a people whose countenances and habit expressed so much misery and want.
-- I then desired the governor to call up Descartes and Gas-sendi, with whom I prevailed to explain their systems to Aristotle.
-- The gentleman to whom I addressed my discourse, be-cause (as I have already observed) he spoke the language of Balnibarbi, said to me, with a sort of a smile which usually arises from pity to the ignorant, 'that he was glad of any oc-casion to keep me among them, and desired my permission to explain to the company what I had spoke.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll explain to you, then,' said the gentleman, after another and a dismal pause, 'why you wouldn't paper a room with representations of horses.
-- 'Pray take no further trouble to explain yourself.
-- 'Father,' said Louisa, for he was present, 'I cannot refuse to see them, for a reason that will explain itself.
-- He would then know what he would have to explain on coming back, and would be ready.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will briefly explain the cause.
-- If it had ever served in former times as a kind of funnel through which passed the eruptive masses vomited by Sneffels, I was at a loss to explain how it had left no mark.
-- "I will explain why I fancy I have lost my senses," I cried.
-- In order to understand this remark, I must explain that though we had been driven back to the northern shore, we had landed at a very different spot from that which had been our starting point.
-- On reflection, this appeared to me partially to explain the existence of this remarkable ocean, forty leagues below the surface of the earth's crust.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope,' said Arthur, very doubtful what to say, 'that my respect for your daughter may explain and justify my desire to be presented to you, sir.'
-- Without thinking it worth while to explain that in the course of some quarter of a century he had experienced occasional slight fluctuations in his health and spirits, Clennam answered generally that he had never been better, or something equally to the purpose; and shook hands with the possessor of 'that head' as it shed its patriarchal light upon him.
-- He felt it necessary to explain himself.
-- He begged her to hear him explain himself, as the greatest favour she could show him.
-- 'Society,' said Mrs Merdle, with another curve of her little finger, 'is so difficult to explain to young persons (indeed is so difficult to explain to most persons), that I am glad to hear that.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll help you with the hard words, and they'' explain things if we don't understand,' whispered Beth, very much impressed by the pretty books and her sisters, example.
-- 'Here's a scrape!Do let me bring that wicked boy over to explain and be lectured.
-- Let it pass, and I'll explain what I can.
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