KAREN DUFFIN: So this is really illustrative of what happened.

凯伦·达芬：这确实说明了所发生的事情。

Now in the present case Erskine contended that the examples of the whale and the lady were reciprocally illustrative of each other.

所以，在现在这个案子里，厄斯金主张，这头鲸鱼和那位女士的例子正好可以互相说明。

The guidebooks that simply cite the poem as illustrative of " compared to" have more explaining to do.

简单地引用这首诗作为“比较”的说明的指南有更多的解释要做。

That's because we've got a lot of tectonic plates moving around across this region, we've got a lot of rift zones, and this is illustrative of just how devastating these earthquakes can be.

因为这个区域有很多构造板块运动发生，这里也有很多裂谷带，这显示了这些地震的破坏性有多大。

At the sound of footsteps Swithin beat a hasty retreat up-stairs, where he struck a light, and revealed a table covered with books and papers, while round the walls hung star-maps, and other diagrams illustrative of celestial phenomena.

听到脚步声，斯威森匆忙撤退到楼上，他点了盏灯，露出一张桌子，上面放满了书籍和文件，墙上挂着星图和其他说明天体现象的图表。