Word · Frequency #566
detail
详细说明；详述
To explain in detail.
- 1.
To explain in detail.
详细解释
- 2.
To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles, always pronounced /ˈdiːteɪl/)
仔细清洁(尤指车辆)
- 3.
To assign to a particular task.
指派给特定任务
精洗（尤指汽车）；指派；派遣；详细解释；仔细清洁(尤指车辆)；指派给特定任务
In use
The report details the company's financial performance over the past year.
She detailed her travel plans to the group during the meeting.
The manager is detailing the new procedures in a memo right now.
Verb forms
base detail · third person details · -ing detailing · past detailed · past participle detailed
注意：'detail'作动词时意为详细说明，过去式和过去分词均为detailed。
Connections
Collocations
- detail the plan
- 详细说明计划
- Please detail the plan in your presentation.请在演示中详细说明这个计划。
- detail a car
- 精洗汽车
- He spent the afternoon detailing his car.他花了一下午精洗他的汽车。
- detail someone to do something
- 指派某人做某事
- The manager detailed me to handle the client.经理指派我负责这位客户。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记法：de+tail（尾巴）——把事情的“尾巴”（细枝末节）一一讲清；给车擦到发亮是“精洗”；把人派到岗位是“派遣”。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：writing reports、car detailing、official assignments 动词 detail 的用法随语境变化：通常表示“详细说明”，多用于书面或正式场合；在汽车护理行业中常指“精洗”；在公文或军事任务中可表示“指派”。因此整体归为“混合”最合适。
Grammar Note
作及物动词时意为'详述，选派'；作不及物动词时意为'画详图'，需根据上下文判断。
Pronunciation & Spelling
动词detail读作/dɪˈteɪl/，重音在第二音节，与tail、mail、sale、fail、nail、hail等押韵。注意拼写相似的retail常因重音和元音不同而不押韵，如名词retail读/ˈriːteɪl/。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 4，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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