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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll spoil it if you do, for the interest of the story is more in the minds than in the actions of the people, and it will be all a muddle if you don't explain as you go on,' said Meg, who firmly believed that this book was the most remarkable novel ever written.
-- I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let me try to explain them.
-- I knew not how this consciousness at last glided away from me; but waking in the morning, I shudderingly remembered it all, and for days and weeks and months afterwards I lost myself in confounding attempts to explain the mystery.
-- We then turned over the book together, and I endeavored to explain to him the purpose of the printing, and the meaning of the few pictures that were in it.
-- But how can I hope to explain myself here; and yet, in some dim, random way, explain myself I must, else all these chapters might be naught.
-- Explain thyself, Ishmael.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As near as I know, there isn't anybody as would be asking very partickler arter you, if you was disposed of; so I needn't take this devil-and-all of trouble to explain matters to you, if it warn't for your own good.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Upon my word, I cannot exactly explain the matter; Darcy must speak for himself.'
-- Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain to her the nature of an entail.
-- As they walked home, Elizabeth related to Jane what she had seen pass between the two gentlemen; but though Jane would have defended either or both, had they appeared to be in the wrong, she could no more explain such behaviour than her sister.
-- I need not explain myself far-ther; and though WE know this anxiety to be quite needless, yet if she feels it, it will easily account for her behaviour to me; and so deservedly dear as he is to his sister, whatever anxiety she must feel on his behalf is natural and amiable.
-- She dared not re-late the other half of Mr. Darcy's letter, nor explain to her sister how sincerely she had been valued by her friend.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let the naturalists explain these things, and the reason and manner of them.
-- He said, 'No; they never went that were young men; none went thither but the old men,' whom he called their Oowokakee; that is, as I made him explain to me, their religious, or clergy; and that they went to say O (so he called saying prayers), and then came back and told them what Benamuckee said.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister.
-- Another meeting will suffice to explain his sentiments on picturesque beauty, and second marriages, and then you can have nothing farther to ask.
-- Whatever Marianne was desirous of, her mother would be eager to promote she could not expect to influence the latter to cautiousness of conduct in an affair respecting which she had never been able to inspire her with distrust; and she dared not explain the motive of her own disinclination for going to London.
-- The real state of things between Willoughby and her sister was so little known to herself, that in endeavouring to explain it, she might be as liable to say too much as too little.
-- Pray call again as soon as possible, and explain the reason of my having expected this in vain.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not know exactly what she would do or how she would explain to Drouet, if he came.
-- Minnie had a quaver of conscience as she took it, but did not know how to explain to Hanson if she took less.
-- She did not explain that the thought, however, had aroused all the antagonism of her nature.
-- And yet, how could she explain where she even got that money?
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