explicate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they explicate | |
| he / she / it explicates | |
| past simple explicated | |
| past participle explicated | |
| -ing form explicating |
- explicate something
to explain an idea or a work of literature in a lot of detail 详细解释，详细分析（想法或文学作品） How can we best explicate ‘King Lear’ and understand it? 我们怎样才能最好地解释和理解《李尔王》？ It is impossible to explicate this concept in any meaningful way. 不可能以任何有意义的方式来解释这个概念。
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin explicat- ‘unfolded’, from the verb explicare, from ex- ‘out’ + plicare ‘to fold’.