explain nell'Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Traduzioni di explain nel dizionario inglese»spagnolo

I.explain [ingl am ɪkˈspleɪn, ingl brit ɪkˈspleɪn, ɛkˈspleɪn] VB vb trans

1. explain (make understandable):

explain

explicar

to explain sth to sb

explicarle algo a alguien

she explained it to me

me lo explicó

she explained to us how it had happened/why she had done it

nos explicó cómo había pasado/por qué lo había hecho

2. explain (account for):

explain actions/absence/disappearance

explicar

how do you explain the fact that … ?

¿cómo explica el hecho de que … ?

that explains everything!

eso lo explica or aclara todo

I explained that I'd been delayed

les expliqué que me había retrasado

II.explain [ingl am ɪkˈspleɪn, ingl brit ɪkˈspleɪn, ɛkˈspleɪn] VB vb rifl

to explain oneself

explicarse

please explain yourself more clearly

por favor explíquese más claramente

you're late, explain yourself!

explique por qué llega tarde

III.explain [ingl am ɪkˈspleɪn, ingl brit ɪkˈspleɪn, ɛkˈspleɪn] VB vb intr

will you explain?

¿me lo explicas?

if you'd just let me explain

al menos déjame que te explique

he's got some explaining to do

nos debe una explicación

explain away VB [ingl am ɪkˈspleɪn -, ingl brit ɪkˈspleɪn, ɛkˈspleɪn -] (v + o + adv, v + adv + o)

explain away fact/result:

explain away

encontrar una explicación convincente para

how are you going to explain that away?

¿cómo te las vas a arreglar para explicar eso?

how are you going to explain that away?

¿cómo vas a encontrar una explicación convincente para eso?

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laboriously explain/write

farragosamente

laboriously explain/write

trabajosamente

vaguely explain

vagamente

vaguely explain

con imprecisión

vaguely explain

de manera imprecisa

I'll explain if you'll just hear me out

te lo explicaré si estás dispuesta a escucharme

plainly explain

claramente

simply explain/describe

simplemente

simply explain/describe

sencillamente

neatly solve/explain/evade

hábilmente

neatly solve/explain/evade

ingeniosamente

he got terribly tangled up trying to explain himself

se hizo un enredo tratando de explicarse

he got terribly tangled up trying to explain himself

se hizo un lío tratando de explicarse colloq

Traduzioni di explain nel dizionario spagnolo»inglese

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hizo un inciso para explicar el cambio

he digressed in order to explain the change

explain nel dizionario PONS

Traduzioni di explain nel dizionario inglese»spagnolo

I.explain [ɪkˈspleɪn] VB vb trans

explain

explicar

to explain a text to a pupil

explicar un texto a un alumno

to explain how/what/where/why ...

explicar cómo/qué/dónde/por qué...

to explain oneself

explicarse

that explains everything!

¡eso lo aclara todo!

to explain away sth

justificar algo

II.explain [ɪkˈspleɪn] VB vb intr

explain

explicar

explain away VB vb trans

explain away

justificar

Traduzioni di explain nel dizionario spagnolo»inglese

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explanar

to explain

explicar algo de forma escueta

to explain sth briefly

difícil de explicar

difficult to explain

¿sería Ud. tan amable de explicármelo?

would you be so kind as to explain it to me?

motivar

to explain

comentar (explicar)

to explain

especificar

to explain

exponer

to explain

explain Esempi dal dizionario PONS (verificati dalla Redazione)

that's sort of difficult to explain

es algo difícil de explicar

to explain a text to a pupil

explicar un texto a un alumno

to explain how/what/where/why ...

explicar cómo/qué/dónde/por qué...

to explain oneself

explicarse

to explain away sth

justificar algo

and now I will (go on to) explain why

paso a explicar porqué

would you be so kind as to explain it to me?

¿sería Ud. tan amable de explicármelo?

Esempi monolingue (non verificati dalla Redazione di PONS)

inglese

He explains that he would like to speak to him about forestry.

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Drug resistant parasites are often used to explain malaria treatment failure.

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This will be explained in the following section.

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More recent research claims that this is not enough to explain the effect.

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I had a month, that was it, he explains.

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She listens in guilt as he explains that all he does is work and come home to an empty house.

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He has gotten a whiff of something burning and food cooking when there was no source to explain this.

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Now the line is teaming up with another manufacturer, which explains why the official website is down.

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It was not revealed or explained how he got back to their house.

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It explains all the mysterious forces we invented religions around.

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