← ‘Why,’ said the Dodo, ‘the best way to explain it is to do it.’ (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.) 🔊
← And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made. 🔊
← ‘I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir’ said Alice, ‘because I’m not myself, you see.’ 🔊
← ‘Explain all that,’ said the Mock Turtle. 🔊
← ‘I should like to have it explained,’ said the Mock Turtle. 🔊
← ‘She can’t explain it,’ said the Gryphon hastily. ‘Go on with the next verse.’ 🔊
← ‘What is the use of repeating all that stuff,’ the Mock Turtle interrupted, ‘if you don’t explain it as you go on? It’s by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!’ 🔊
← (As that is rather a hard word, I will just explain to you how it was done. 🔊
← ‘If any one of them can explain it,’ said Alice, (she had grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn’t a bit afraid of interrupting him,) ‘I’ll give him sixpence. 🔊
← The jury all wrote down on their slates, ‘She doesn’t believe there’s an atom of meaning in it,’ but none of them attempted to explain the paper. 🔊