"explain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

explain verbo

explain + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 136
explain things • explain matters • explain one's decision • explain one's actions • explain one's behavior • explain one's position • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 25
(1) thing, effect
Kolokacji: 2
(3) decision, choice, vote
Kolokacji: 3
(7) presence, absence, lack
Kolokacji: 3
(11) attempt, crime
Kolokacji: 2
1. attempt to explain = próba wyjaśnienia attempt to explain
2. explain crime = wyjaśnij przestępstwo explain crime
  • The theory has not been used to explain organized crime, corporate crime, or deviant behavior that takes place outside neighborhood settings.
  • A widely used theory to explain crime is crime pattern theory.
  • The condemned man is given no name, nor is it explained what crime he has committed.
  • A large number of narrow and broad theories have been proposed for explaining crime.
  • Many other reasons are invoked to explain crime, and other problems associated with Japan's youth.
  • It has been used to explain violence and crime.
  • It is used by psychoanalyst criminologists to explain crime.
  • Rather than explaining crime, mental disorder redefines it as something else.
  • In practice, it is difficult to see how learning theories could explain crime without any reference to invention.
  • As a result, many scholars became preoccupied with describing how high unemployment rates or social oppression explained crime.
(12) origin, name
Kolokacji: 2
(13) policy, strategy
Kolokacji: 2
(18) feeling, desire, vision, dream
Kolokacji: 4
(20) time, history, life, past
Kolokacji: 4
(22) technique, rate
Kolokacji: 2
(23) predicament, plight
Kolokacji: 2
(25) reluctance, willingness
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + explain
Kolokacji: 32
help explain • attempt to explain • try to explain • seek to explain • fail to explain • help to explain • begin to explain • need to explain • ...
explain + preposición
Kolokacji: 30
explain to • explain by • explain about • explain in • explain during • ...
explain + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 105
fully explain • partly explain • explain patiently • explained away • easily explained • clearly explain • later explain • further explain • ...

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