"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
  • I wanted them to stop trying to explain their attraction to him and tell us more about themselves.
  • And since comics cost almost nothing to create, they are open to all comers, which may explain their attraction for women.
  • It was only March and we didn't know each other well enough for me to explain my attraction to these last four lines.
  • He made a few more passes at explaining his attraction to it, then gave up.
  • Of course the Guardian is not going to explain her attraction to heterosexual men in any depth.
  • Obviously, no one thing can explain Orthodoxy's attraction to such different people.
  • How do you explain her sudden attraction to the young Moroccan she meets in a club?
  • He couldn't explain his overwhelming attraction to the slim volume.
  • "I can't explain my attraction to things that are Latin," she said.
  • "It makes your arm very smooth," he said, trying to explain its attraction.
2. explain one's fascination = wyjaśniać czyjś fascynacja explain one's fascination
3. explain gravity = wyjaśnij grawitację explain gravity
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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