"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. explain one's rights = wyjaśniać czyjś prawa explain one's rights
3. explain Hitler = wyjaśnij Hitlera explain Hitler
4. explain anomalies = wyjaśnij nieprawidłowości explain anomalies
5. explain fossils = wyjaśnij skamieniałości explain fossils
  • A very small number of dinosaur fossils have been found above the K-T boundary, but they have been explained as 'reworked', that is, fossils that have been eroded from their original locations then preserved in later sedimentary layers.
  • Local Native Americans devised myths to explain fossils.
  • Geologists see no need to invoke a global flood to explain upright fossils.
  • Athanasius Kircher in his 1665 work Mundus subterraneus explained fossils as giant bones as those belonging to extinct races of giant humans.
  • Local Native Americans devised myths to explain local fossils, many containing themes paralleling modern scientific discoveries.
  • At 10:45 30th Jun 2011, pandatank wrote: @8 How does creationism or intelligent design explain fossils?
  • At 20:48 30th Jun 2011, Quartus45 wrote: Pandatank - "How does creationism or intelligent design explain fossils?
  • 'So how do you explain fossils, then?'
  • The answer was again no, but Conway had to ask the help of Wainright to explain fossils to the Gogleskan.
  • Anyway, you don't have to explain fossils.
(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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