Explain

Definition

explain /Çk'spleÇn/ v ၁။ ~ sth (to sb) ရွင္းခ်က္ထုတ္သည္။ အေၾကာင္းျပသည္။ ေျဖရွင္းသည္။ That explains his absence. ❍ He explained that his train had been delayed. ❍ ‘I had to wait over an hour at the dentist's,’ he explained. ❍ They explained what had happened. ❍ Please explain why you are late. ❍ She explained her conduct to her boss. ❍ She explained to the children that the school had been closed. ❍ The manager has explained to customers why the goods were late. ၂။ ~ sth (to sb) (အေသးစိတ္) ရွင္းလင္းျပသည္။ ရွင္းျပသည္။ A dictionary explains the meaning of words. ❍ He explained his plan to us. ❍ Can you explain (to me) how it works? ❍ Let me explain. ❏ explain oneself [ IDM ] ၁။ ကိုယ့္ဟာကိုယ္ ရွင္းျပသည္။ I don't understand your argument— could you explain yourself a bit more? ၂။ ( fml ) ကိုယ့္လုပ္ရပ္ကိုယ္ရွင္းျပသည္။ Last week you were late for work every day — please explain yourself. ❏ explain sth away [ PHRV ] ဆင္ေျခေပးသည္။ အေၾကာင္းျပ ခ်က္ ေပးသည္။ Government ministers will not find it easy to explain away their poor performance in recent by-elections.

Examples

1. ‘My full name is Juliet Avery
2. ’ Juliet explained patiently.
3. [explain something to someone] : The doctor explained the risks to me before the operation.
4. [explain how/when/what etc] : I will try to explain how a car engine works.
5. [explain (that)] : He explained that he would be moving to another city.
6. This manual explains how to use your computer.
7. A leaflet that explains who can claim benefit
8. Science cannot explain everything.
9. It’s difficult to explain the popularity of this new toy.
10. The phenomenon can be explained in various ways.
11. [explain why/what etc] : ‘Tom is in hospital.’ ‘That explains why he wasn’t in school today.’
12. I can explain everything.
13. Wait! Let me explain!