English Dictionary

explain

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪkˈspleɪn/

動詞

廃用 自動詞

To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of. / To give a valid excuse for past behavior. / (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.

日本語の意味

（物事を）明確にする、わかりやすく説明する / （過去の行動について）言い訳をする、弁明する / （古語・時代遅れの意味で）平たくする、滑らかにする

Could you explain how the new software update improves battery life?

新しいソフトウェアのアップデートがどのようにバッテリー寿命を向上させるのか説明していただけますか？

意味（1）

To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.

She is about to explain a chapter of the Bible to the Sunday School students.

意味（2）

To give a valid excuse for past behavior.

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].

意味（3）

(obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.

意味（4）

(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.

The horse-chestnut is […] ready to explain its leaf.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.

It is easy to modify the account to take this into account, by explaining not just in terms of a set of reasons but in terms of a set of reason–weight pairs.

explains （ present singular third-person ）

explaining （ participle present ）

explained （ participle past ）

explained （ past ）