explain: implies making plain and intelligible what is not immediately obvious and clearly known: the doctor ~ what the operation would entail.


expound: implies a careful, often elaborate and learned explanation: the professor ~ the theory of relativity.


explicate: adds to expound the idea of developed and detailed analysis: a passage that the critics have been inspired to ~ at length.


elucidate: stresses a throwing light on through explanation, exposition and illumination: a news report that ~ the reason for the crime.       elucidate中的LUC是词根表第115个词根，表示光，和解释throwing light完全一致


interpret: adds to explain the need of imagination, sympathy and special knowledge: ~ the play as an ALLEGORY about good and evil. (allegory寓言,指用某事物表达其他事物，有时讽喻)


explain解释: 使变得清楚易理解，通用, expound阐述: 详细的学术性解释，explicate: 还多了分析，elucidate阐明: (参考字面意思)使变得明亮，interpret: 涉及想象力理解力和专门知识的解释


记忆方法: 1) 首字母联想记忆IEEE Explain电气电子工程师学会<==解释

         2) 解释的意思是使清楚易理解mean to make something clear or understandable.首字母联想记忆IEEE Explain电气电子工程师学会<==解释  


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