retain and explain

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To preserve historical material regarded as problematic (such as statues), with appropriate contextual explanation, rather than destroying it or attempting to erase it from history.
    — [W]e have opted in this book to use the word catechesis rather than substitute something in its place. Our strategy is to retain and explain, rather than to reject and replace.

词形变化

retains and explains present,singular,third-person retaining and explaining participle,present retained and explained participle,past retained and explained past
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