"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
(22) technique, rate
Kolokacji: 2
(23) predicament, plight
Kolokacji: 2
1. explain one's attraction = wyjaśniać czyjś atrakcyjność explain one's attraction
2. explain one's fascination = wyjaśniać czyjś fascynacja explain one's fascination
3. explain gravity = wyjaśnij grawitację explain gravity
  • To explain gravity, I tell them to jump.
  • Madison tried to explain gravity to her by holding up a couple of oranges as we bounced along.
  • The standard model does not explain gravity.
  • O906... Emergency conference in school office as aides explain appalling gravity of situation.
  • Newton is said to have told the Doctor to get out of his tree, and the Doctor later explains gravity to him.
  • Since then, and so far, general relativity has been acknowledged as the theory which best explains gravity.
  • Einstein's theory that explains gravity is called the theory of general relativity.
  • There is also a description of where gravity itself may be explained as a result of attempts to speed up the light.
  • For example, there isn't much in it that explains gravity.
  • He explains gravity as due to the constant expansion of the universe.
4. explain altruism = wyjaśnij altruizm explain altruism
(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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