explicate

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ex·pli·cate /ˈeksplɪkeɪt/ verb [transitiveT]

formalEXPLAIN to explain an idea in detail 详细解释〔某一想法〕

It is essentially a simple notion, but explicating it is difficult.

它实质上是一个简单的概念，但要详细解释还是很难。

—explication /ˌeksplɪˈkeɪʃən/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

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explicate• I showed him line by line how the poem should be explicated.• explicating a poem• It may be that these ways of speaking can be explicated at bottom only by way or the idea of necessitation.• But it is debatable whether this could be explicated in any meaningful way.• He does not try to explicate knowledge in terms of an object in isolation from the knowing subject.• The tensions and ambiguities of the dualities that Emerson tried to hold together could not be explicated logically or reconciled philosophically.• There are several complications that l have not even tried to explicate or to explore.• The primitive church employed mythology to augment and explicate the great truths of the gospel.• In explicating this model, managers tend to emphasise the goodness of relationships such as one would find in a happy family.

Origin explicate

(1500-1600) Latin past participle of explicare “to unfold”, from plicare “to fold”

ex·pli·cate verb

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