1 B2 习语 中性
为尴尬、有问题或可能定罪的事作出解释,以让它显得没那么严重或没那么重要。
"The minister struggled to explain away the contradictions in his earlier statement."
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You can't explain away the deaths of 135,000 Iraqi civilians.
— George Galloway, speech to the US Senate, 2005
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