| 单词 | clarification |
| 释义 | clarification (once / 10034 pages) n Clarification is what you hope to achieve when you make an idea or concept less confusing and easier to understand. This often happens after a detailed or very clear explanation. Loudspeaker announcements in bus terminals and train stations are always so muffled and difficult to understand that it would be nice if you could at least find someone afterward who could provide clarification. In the realm of science, clarification is also the act of removing solid particles from a liquid so that it is more pure and, in some cases, so that it is transparent. WORD FAMILYclarification: clarifications+/clarify: clarification, clarified, clarifies, clarifying USAGE EXAMPLESHis aides did not immediately respond to questions seeking clarification. Time(Jan 02, 2017) France’s governing socialist immediately demanded clarification, calling the reported amount “astronomical.” Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) When the agency contacts the counties for clarification, corrections staffers often don’t hear back. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1n the act of removing solid particles from a liquid Syn|Hyper clearing improvement the act of improving something 2n an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook Syn|Hypo|Hyper elucidation, illumination disambiguation clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity lexical disambiguationdisambiguation of the sense of a polysemantic word interpretation an explanation that results from interpreting something |
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