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.


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的解释。


       2) 词根记忆，参见【词根系列】第0篇 纵览https://www.enfamily.cn/thread-827935-1-1.html

       
        四个以EX(基本词根，未收录)开头，表示外部或向外。plain和pound（非词根）是单词，分别表示清楚和敲打。 pli是词根PLY（基本词根，未收录）变体，表折叠。


        elucidate中的LUC（第115条）表示光，和解释throwing light完全一致。


        interpret中的INTER(第101条)表示互相，prec是词根PREC(罕见词根，未收录)变体表示祈祷to pray。


     3） 本组同义词经常用到，请结合例句记忆。

     4） 解释的意思是使清楚易理解mean to make something clear or understandable.


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