"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
(18) feeling, desire, vision, dream
Kolokacji: 4
(20) time, history, life, past
Kolokacji: 4
1. time to explain = czas wyjaśnić time to explain
3. explain one's life = wyjaśniać czyjś życie explain one's life
4. explain one's past = wyjaśniać czyjś przeszłość explain one's past
  • Valjean explains his past to her directly rather than through Marius.
  • "A Dangerous Woman" never quite explains Martha's past, or the forces that shaped her.
  • Regina asks about it, and Dylan explains his dark past.
  • Mr. Sherry shows little interest in the many other ways historians have tried to explain our recent past.
  • Others respond to a government's need to explain a nation's past to itself.
  • Pearson said she wrote the book, "so that I won't have to keep explaining" her past and her life story.
  • Don't ask me to explain my troubled past.
  • Mr. Mordaunt took it upon himself to explain the court's past as well as its present.
  • I immediately felt like the diagnosis explained my past.
  • He was both prophesizing his future and explaining his past with a single act of personal mythology.
(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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