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explicable

adjective
🔊/ɪkˈsplɪkəbl/, 🔊/ˈeksplɪkəbl/
🔊/ɪkˈsplɪkəbl/, 🔊/ˈeksplɪkəbl/
[not usually before noun] (formal)
Word Family
  • explain verb
  • explanation noun
  • explanatory adjective
  • explicable adjective (≠ inexplicable)
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  1. that can be explained or understood可解释；可说明；可理解
    • His behaviour is only explicable in terms of (= because of) his recent illness.他的行为只能用他最近患病来解释。🔊🔊
    opposite inexplicable
    Extra Examples
    • The delay is partly explicable on account of the roadworks.由于道路工程，延误在某种程度上是可以解释的。
    • The sudden increase in sales is easily explicable.销售额的突然增加是很容易理解的。
    • These atrocities are not readily explicable by any of the usual analyses of politics.通常的政治分析无法轻易地解释这些暴行。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • seem
    • become
    • …
    adverb
    • easily
    • readily
    • entirely
    • …
    preposition
    • by
    • in terms of
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin explicabilis, from explicare, from ex- ‘out’ + plicare ‘to fold’.