"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
2. neatly explain = starannie wyjaśnij neatly explain
3. painstakingly explain = skrupulatnie wyjaśnij painstakingly explain
  • If people take these things home, and find they can't run their regular Windows programs, which they will find, then a lot of them will be coming back, if Ms hasn't painstakingly explained this all first.
  • "Then," Sean explained painstakingly, "in the time it took to get the breaker restored, someone could have come over the fence and security would never be the wiser."
  • She's engaging and welcoming, though again we can't escape the bill, as she painstakingly explains the financial whys and wherefores of the menu.
  • He did not gamble, explaining frequently and painstakingly that that wasn't none of his dish; he wanted to have fun with his money.
  • Sir Arthur Eddington, a physicist with a numerological bent, labored over a grand theory (posthumously published in 1946) that painstakingly explained why alpha had to be precisely 1/136, which was once the accepted value.
  • Intercepting Data before he could painstakingly explain why this was impossible, the captain held up a hand and continued.
  • Meanwhile, the owner of her apartment, Laurel Hill Associates, explained painstakingly through a lawyer that the eviction was a last-ditch move, after ample notice on paper and in court.
  • She eventually managed to expose the husband by painstakingly explaining her story through embroidery.
  • Mother," she explained painstakingly.
  • 'Let us write a little,' he would say, . . . then succinctly but painstakingly explain the court's ruling, especially to pro se and under-represented litigants.
(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
(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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