What does explain against mean ?
There you have an example
He makes the subject more interesting by explaining against the background of his own narrative.
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There you have an example
He makes the subject more interesting by explaining against the background of his own narrative.
Provide more examples, definitions/meanings and so on.
An interesting example. We would need more context to be sure what happened to lead up to this but a likely scenario is that the speaker has just outlined his own narrative as a background and he uses that narrative in as a background to his explanation. The key phrase here is against the background which you would use when describing a scene. So you might say that the white flowers were perfectly set off against the grey background.