"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 • ...
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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(1) fully, hardly, poorly
Kolokacji: 3
(3) patiently, impatiently
Kolokacji: 2
(4) easily, well, successfully
Kolokacji: 3
(5) clearly, lucidly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) later, afterward
Kolokacji: 2
(9) better, best
Kolokacji: 2
3. inadequately explained = niewystarczająco wyjaśnić inadequately explained
  • Fowler frequently lapses into the annoying pedagogical habit of inserting "simple" or "well-known" in front of jargon that is left inadequately explained; the reader may feel shamed by not knowing what the author considers obvious.
  • And Tarek's severe financial problems (he is secretly deeply in debt) are inadequately explained.
  • Affective consequences of inadequately explained physiological arousal.
  • He said the party had inadequately explained its position to the Soviet people.
  • Explainer stands ready to explain items in the day's news that are confusing or vague or seemingly contradictory or otherwise inadequately explained by the conventional media.
  • The alien has a logical reason to be there, it turns out, but its presence was inadequately explained.
  • The charges that led to his firing include an inadequately explained two-week trip to Moscow last month.
  • Overstuffed with characters whose identities are inadequately explained, the movie jumps around awkwardly from person to person to create a kinky 40's mosaic of frightened, repressed American patriots.
  • The abrupt shifts, inadequately explained in a title, leaves you scratching your head.
  • We are of the opinion that the 8.4% increase in the budget for the common foreign and security policy is inadequately explained.
(13) quietly, gently, softly
Kolokacji: 3
(14) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(15) entirely, alone, solely
Kolokacji: 3
(16) proudly, modestly
Kolokacji: 2
(17) kindly, tactfully
Kolokacji: 2
(18) hastily, hurriedly
Kolokacji: 2
(19) publicly, explicitly
Kolokacji: 2
(20) politely, graciously
Kolokacji: 2
(24) eagerly, enthusiastically
Kolokacji: 2
(25) bluntly, gruffly
Kolokacji: 2
(26) confidently, shyly
Kolokacji: 2

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