"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
(12) origin, name
Kolokacji: 2
(13) policy, strategy
Kolokacji: 2
2. chance to explain = okazja by wyjaśnić chance to explain
4. explain one's reaction = wyjaśniać czyjś reakcja explain one's reaction
5. explain one's response = wyjaśniać czyjś odpowiedź explain one's response
  • Ms. Allen has alluded to a chaotic childhood in interviews, which might explain her hellfire response to rejection.
  • Officials continued to explain their initial slow response.
  • "Well, that would explain their response, wouldn't it?"
  • It's otherwise hard to explain an audience's hearty response.
  • Our Report would not be credible if it did not acknowledge these differences and explain our response to them.
  • Unless the government buried all reports of your offer, which would have been hard to do, it must needs explain its response, whether positive or negative.
  • After the ceremony, he explained his own tearful response to his daughter's pledge of lasting love.
  • "I suppose that explains your leisurely response to my summons."
  • Rosemary Basson argues that this model poorly explains women's sexual response, especially for those who are in long-term relationships.
  • This explains the Persian king's response to Spartan requests for financial help in the 420s, that he could not understand what they wanted.
(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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