say what

基本解释

That is, they tend to say what must be not what to do.
换句话说，它们更趋向于说必须是什么，而不是该去做什么。
It's hard to say what his intentions were in saying that.
他说这番话，不知存的什么心。
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But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word slang is an extension which every one will not admit.
然而，不论人们说什么，这样去认识黑话这个词，总还是就广义而言，而且还不是人人都能接受的。

But he said it was too early to say what caused the April twentieth explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
But it is interesting. Let's just, for an order of magnitude say what happens for ground state electron in atomic hydrogen?
但行星模型其实挺有趣的，按照重要的先后顺序，我们来猜想一下,氢原子中的基态电子会发生些什么？
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And we graduated the same year -- now no one has to say what year that was, even if you know, but we did graduate the same year.
我们同一年毕业的-,当然我不要求你们说出是哪一年，可能有人知道，我们在同一年毕业。
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However, company officials refuse to say what was stolen and the value, citing the ongoing investigation.
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