explicable
英 [ɪk'splɪkəb(ə)l; ek-; 'eksplɪ,kəb(ə)l]
美 [ɪk'splɪkəbl]
助记提示
1. ex- "out" + plic- "fold" + -able.
2. => capable of being unraveled, that may be explained.
中文词源
explicable 可解释的来自explicate,解释清楚的。
英文词源
- explicable (adj.)
- 1550s, from or modeled on Latin explicabilis "capable of being unraveled, that may be explained," from explicare "unfold; explain" (see explicit). Middle English had a verb expliken "explain, interpret" (mid-15c.).
双语例句
- 1. The delay is partly explicable by the road works.
- 延误的部份原因是道路施工.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. The sudden increase in sales is easily explicable.
- 销售额的突然增加是很容易理解的.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. The differences in the children's achievements were not wholly explicable in terms of their social backgrounds.
- 那些孩子成绩方面的差异不能完全从社会背景来解释.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The older I grow, the stranger and less explicable the world appears to me.
- 年龄越大，世界对我而言就变得越陌生、越难理解。
来自辞典例句
- 5. His behaviour is explicable in the light of his recent illness.
- 他因近日患病,这种表现是可以理解的.
来自辞典例句