explicable

来自explicate,解释清楚的。

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.).

1. The delay is partly explicable by the road works.

延误的部份原因是道路施工.

2. The sudden increase in sales is easily explicable.

销售额的突然增加是很容易理解的.

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.

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。

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.