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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Missy had had to explain what she meant by the words, "After all that has happened," she could have told nothing definite, and yet she undoubtedly knew that not only had he given her cause to hope, but he had almost made his promise--not in so many words, but by his glances, his smiles, his innuendos, his silence.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact.
-- You can explain that.
-- Says he'll explain when he comes."
-- "I'm going to wash and dress, and then I'll come down and explain things.... Save me some of that mutton.
-- They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other, and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused an immense amount of genuine, if uncivil, amusement.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I can explain all the poems that were ever invented and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 12th of June, 1745, for instance, a sum of seventy pounds had plainly become due to someone, and there was nothing but six crosses to explain the cause.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But soon, finding myself driven into a corner, I was obliged to explain myself point by point.
-- "But if they do not exist, mine obstinate harpooner, how explain the accident to the Scotia?"
-- I omit the theories without number by which it was sought to explain that of which you alone possess the secret.
-- Formerly he was pleased to explain the submarine marvels to me; now he left me to my studies, and came no more to the saloon.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The master tried to explain the matter; but he was really half dead with fatigue, and all that I could make out, amongst her scolding, was a tale of his seeing it starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb, in the streets of Liverpool, where he picked it up and inquired for its owner.
-- Leaving Joseph to explain matters, I ran to the children's room: their door was ajar, I saw they had never lain down, though it was past midnight; but they were calmer, and did not need me to console them.
-- But if you will not mock at me, I'll explain it: I can't do it distinctly; but I'll give you a feeling of how I feel.
-- That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other.
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