ex·pound
verb/ɪkˈspaʊnd/
/ɪkˈspaʊnd/
[transitive, intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they expound | /ɪkˈspaʊnd/ /ɪkˈspaʊnd/ |
| he / she / it expounds | /ɪkˈspaʊndz/ /ɪkˈspaʊndz/ |
| past simple expounded | /ɪkˈspaʊndɪd/ /ɪkˈspaʊndɪd/ |
| past participle expounded | /ɪkˈspaʊndɪd/ /ɪkˈspaʊndɪd/ |
| -ing form expounding | /ɪkˈspaʊndɪŋ/ /ɪkˈspaʊndɪŋ/ |
- to explain something by talking about it in detail
详解；详述；阐述 - expound something (to somebody) He expounded his views on the subject to me at great length.
他详细地向我阐述了他在这个问题上的观点。 - the theory of language expounded by Chomsky
乔姆斯基阐述的语言理论 - She expounded her theory further in the course of her talk.
她在发言中进一步详述了她的理论。 - These ideas were originally expounded by Plato.
这些思想最初是由柏拉图阐述的。 - expound on something We listened as she expounded on the government's new policies.
我们听她详细讲解了政府的新政策。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryExpound is used with these nouns as the object:- doctrine
- idea
- view
- …
Word OriginMiddle English expoune (in the sense ‘explain (what is difficult)’): from Old French espon-, present tense stem of espondre, from Latin exponere ‘expose, publish, explain’, from ex- ‘out’ + ponere ‘put’. The origin of the final -d (recorded from the Middle English period) is uncertain (compare with compound, propound). - expound something (to somebody) He expounded his views on the subject to me at great length.