"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
(13) quietly, gently, softly
Kolokacji: 3
(14) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(15) entirely, alone, solely
Kolokacji: 3
(16) proudly, modestly
Kolokacji: 2
1. proudly explain = dumnie wyjaśnij proudly explain
2. explain modestly = wyjaśnij skromnie explain modestly
  • "Well, it's just a little something I take out on the weekends," the Captain explained modestly.
  • Mr. Coppola explains modestly, "I've been around the block a few times."
  • As one of the more ravishing ones modestly explained, "I was just born this way."
  • So I've acquired a taste for it,' he explained modestly.
  • "It helps when the guy pitching to you is throwing the ball at 90 miles an hour," Carter explained modestly.
  • "It is the only thing I can do," I explained modestly.
  • Hans Horeger modestly explained the difficulties involved in guiding a starship across the long light- years between worlds.
  • "I thought it would help us avoid trouble if they looked a little mean," I explained modestly.
  • (As he modestly explains, "My reading in mythology has been sporadic at best:") Nevertheless, it lays a sure and true foundation under his fiction.
  • "Oh, I'd done a bit of flying before I was called up," Brim explained modestly.
(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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