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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was beginning to explain the case in a categorical manner, when Lord Glenarvan and his party came up on the poop.
-- "I explain nothing.
-- And he went on to explain that this PAMPERO is very common in the Argentine plains.
-- All the party, except Mulrady and Wilson, who were on guard, were brought into the wagon, and the Major was asked to explain how this DENOUEMENT had come about.
-- "Close sympathy in thought and grief does not suffice to explain this phenomenon."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stayed with him all the evening, and it was on that occasion, to explain the emotion which he had shown, that he confided to my keeping that narrative which I read to you when first I came.
-- 'Why, of course, that would explain it.
-- 'How do you explain it?'
-- 'I just don't attempt to explain it.
-- But whatever the true explanation of Barrymore's move-ments might be, I felt that the responsibility of keeping them to myself until I could explain them was more than I could bear.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I hope I shall not interfere with the proper se-quence of my narrative too much, if I diverge for a moment at this point, in order to explain the mutual relations be-tween General Epanchin's family and others acting a part in this history, at the time when we take up the thread of their destiny.
-- 'I suppose that was it; I cannot explain it otherwise?'
-- 'I assure you I am not a thief, and yet I have stolen; I can-not explain why.
-- 'I both believe it and explain it.
-- 'We are neighbours, so will you be so kind as to come over one day and explain the Apocalypse to me?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Explain this that I may understand it.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When asked what an experimental investigator was, she would say with a touch of superiority that most educated people knew such things as that, and would thus explain that he "discovered things."
-- So Hall and Henfrey, rather crestfallen, tiptoed back to the bar, gesticulating to explain to her.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Answer, first, why the heart thrills; explain wherefore some plaintive note goes wandering about the world, undying; make clear the rose's subtle alchemy evolving its ruddy lamp in light and rain.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, how they all took on!They crowded around the doctor and tried to quiet him down, and tried to explain to him and tell him how Harvey 'd showed in forty ways that he WAS Harvey, and knowed every- body by name, and the names of the very dogs, and begged and BEGGED him not to hurt Harvey's feelings and the poor girl's feelings, and all that.
-- And when you tell him the handbill and the reward's bogus, maybe he'll believe you when you explain to him what the idea was for getting 'em out.
-- You explain THAT to me if you can! ANY of you!'
-- Says I to myself, I can explain better how we come to not be in that room this morning if I go out to one side and study over it a little.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Too bad!I'll explain myself better," said the Parrot.
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