交代

❶handover;turnover;transfer
❷explain;make clear;brief; tell
❸account for; justify oneself;own up to one’s mistake
❹confess;make a clean breast of
不能向中国人民～。It would be difficult for us to (give an) account for it to the Chinese people. or:We will not be able to justify ourselves to the Chinese people.or:We can’t present the case to the Chinese people.or:We can’t face our own people./这个问题你怎么～？How are you going to account for this?/很难向民众作出～ hard to answer to the people /彻底～ make a clean breast of/对战俘的情况作出～give an accounting for the pows/坦白～confess; own up to /～不过去be unable to justify one’s action/～工作hand over work to one’s successor; brief one’s successor on handing over work /～政策explain policy/～任务assign and explain a task;brief sb on his task /～罪行confess a crime