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单词 simple-seeming
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simple-seeming
C1. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has (a) simple —’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as in simple-attired, simple-headed, simple-natured, simple-toothed, simple-witted, etc. Also with present participles, forming adjectives in which simple expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in simple-seeming, simple-sounding, etc.See also simple-hearted adj., simple-minded adj.
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a1500 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Adv.) in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 115 Ye schuld have pete To se a lady of soo hee degre So symple tyred.
1550 J. Veron tr. U. Zwingli Ymage Both Pastoures sig. J.iiiv Deceaue ye simple witted men.
1614 J. Sylvester tr. J. Bertaut Panaretus 14 in Parl. Vertues Royal Royall Eumenia..And simple-mannerd Pistia.
1751 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. II. 375 The plane-leaved and simple-stalked Anthericum.
1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 177 Mere incendiary declamation for the simple-headed multitude!
1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 241 Our simple-seeming Abbess and her nuns.
1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 195/1 Good-hearted, simple-natured young Yates.
1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 145 The long series of simple-toothed Rodents.
1930 E. Blunden De Bello Germanico 16 The simple-sounding matter of pushing a truck along a French tramway is rather complex on a dark..night.
2011 Targeted News Service (Nexis) 7 Nov. Fish are not the simple-brained creatures most of us perceive them to be.
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