(v. t.) To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.
(v. t.) To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of
obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a
word, a meaning, or a riddle.
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双语例句
Let our buxom chaplain stand forth, and expound to this reverend father the texts which concern this matter. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
Some make fun of it, some overpraise, and nearly all insist that I had a deep theory to expound, when I only wrote it for the pleasure and the money. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
Each side had to train men in ability to study and expound the records which were relied upon. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Listen, godmother; I am going to expound. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
She dates it from the time when Nietzsche, under the guise of Wagnerian propaganda, began to expound himself. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Light a cigar and let me expound. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
New science was expounded so as to deny the reality of all qualities in real, or objective, existence. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
But my steward has expounded to you the cause of my seeming discourtesy. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
Go on expounding, Sophronia. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
The texts were there still, and so was his own facility in expounding them. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.