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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I can't explain it.
-- Then, while they were trying to explain the smash, I dodged out of the room and went softly downstairs.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may seem a strange contradiction in me, I cannot explain the fact, but now, seeing the creature there in a perfectly animal attitude, with the light gleaming in its eyes and its imperfectly human face distorted with terror, I re-alised again the fact of its humanity.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now you just explain to me why you don't like this!'
-- 'Won't you explain that, please?
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But neither the Mohicans, nor I, who am a white man without a cross, can explain the cry just heard.
-- In vain were the eyes of each individual bent along the oppo-site shores, in quest of some signs of life, that might explain the nature of the interruption they had heard.
-- cried Heyward; 'first explain your expectations.'
-- 'The sweetness, the beauty, the witchery of your younger daughter, Colonel Munro, might explain my motives without imputing to me this injustice.'
-- Duncan now turned to explain these proposals to his commander, who heard him with amazement, and a sensi-bility that was deeply touched by so unusual and unexpected generosity.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It must have been difficult to explain to Robert," I said.
-- I think she added this to explain her attitude to me, but I thought it was due to a very natural jealousy rather than to maternal solicitude.
-- Can you explain that to me?"
-- I knew very little about him at that time, and Strickland had no power to explain himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He undressed his master to see if he was wounded, but not so much as a bruise was to be found, either on the head, body, or limbs, which was surprising, as he must have been dashed against the rocks; even the hands were uninjured, and it was difficult to explain how the engineer showed no traces of the efforts which he must have made to get out of reach of the breakers.
-- "I acknowledge," returned Spilett, "that the wound given this creature is, at least, very strange, and I cannot explain either how Top was so vigorously cast up out of the water.
-- "It is probable," replied Cyrus Harding, "and that would sufficiently, explain the variety of productions which are seen on its surface."
-- Accustomed to go far into the regions of scientific reality, he would not allow himself to be drawn into the regions of the strange and almost of the supernatural; but yet how to explain why Top, one of those sensible dogs who never waste their time in barking at the moon, should persist in trying with scent and hearing to fathom this abyss, if there was nothing there to cause his uneasiness?
-- At all events, the engineer only communicated his impressions to Gideon Spilett, for he thought it useless to explain to his companions the suspicions which arose from what perhaps was only Top's fancy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The single gentleman smiled as if the light in which Mr Swiveller had put the question were not the clearest in the world, and proceeded to explain that they contemplated proceeding by stratagem in the first instance; and that their design was to endeavour to extort a confession from the gentle Sarah.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In conclusion, this lawyer made a thrust at the prosecuting attorney by remarking that, although the splendid reasonings of the prosecutor on heredity explain the scientific questions of heredity, they hardly hold good in the case of Bochkova, since her parentage was unknown.
-- He also intended to explain to them that if they gave an affirmative answer to a question, they would thereby affirm everything involved in the question, and that if they did not desire to affirm everything involved in the question, they must distinguish the part they affirmed from the part they disaffirmed.
-- The foreman thought that he did not understand the questions and proceeded to explain that from all the facts it was evident that Kartinkin and Bochkova were guilty, but the laborer answered that he did understand them, and that he thought that they ought to be charitable.
-- He remembered that he intended to explain to the jury that an answer of guilty without a denial of intent to kill involved an intent to kill, but, as he was hastening to terminate the proceedings, he failed to do so.
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