| 单词 | simple |
| 释义 | sim·ple I. 1. < children grow up in simple beauty around his table — Irish Digest > 2. a. < his simple manners and unaffected friendliness — A.W.Long > b. < her black dress, simple to austerity — W.S.Maugham > < a simple rectangular brick building — American Guide Series: Virginia > < his home simple, his possessions few — P.E.James > < love of the simple life, of trees and small animals — B.M.Woodbridge > 3. a. < found it easier to proclaim himself a prophet than in his home city, where everyone had known him as a simple camel driver — H.W.Van Loon > b. archaic < this change affected … only the simple barons — William Stubbs > c. archaic < a simple woman, much too weak to oppose your cunning — Shakespeare > < scoffed at … this high quest as at a simple thing — Alfred Tennyson > 4. a. < a simple amateur … or a serious scholar — Denys Sutton > < show my mind, according to my shallow simple skill — Shakespeare > b. (1) < one of the girls is simple, the other works as a domestic — J.M.Mogey > (2) < the whole town was baited with … trickery to catch the simple cowhand and remove his cash — S.H.Holbrook > c. < the worldwide story of the conquest of simple peoples and their homelands by the civilization, arms, and diseases of a more dominant race — American Guide Series: Minnesota > 5. a. < simple honesty requires us to admit that none of our creeds are entirely free from guesswork — M.R.Cohen > < a net rusher pure and simple lacking a really powerful serve — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > < in no case may a warrant be issued for a simple exploratory search — Paul Wilson > < ratification of treaties by a simple majority — Vera M. Dean > b. (1) < a simple fracture > (2) < her cures were simple … usually very sensible — Mary Webb > c. < one of those simple and profound experiences … which people seem always to have known when it happens to them — Thomas Wolfe > < even under the most uniform laboratory conditions, a simple color will be complex to the extent of having a bluish edge — John Dewey > specifically d. (1) (2) < a simple compound > : characterized by the same groups, radicals, or ions < triacetin is a simple glyceride > — opposed to mixed e. f. 6. a. (1) < a simple word > — contrasted with complex, compound (2) < “let's go for a walk” is a simple sentence > — contrasted with complex, compound (3) < in the sentence “birds fly” birds is the simple subject and fly the simple predicate > — compare complete (4) < simple tense > — opposed to compound b. (1) < simple time > < simple meter > — compare compound (2) < simple harmony > < simple counterpoint > — contrasted with figurate (3) < simple interval > c. < simple fractions > < simple magnitudes > < simple operations > < simple equations > < simple interest > d. (1) < simple stem > (2) (3) < simple tissue > (4) < simple fruit > e. < a simple lens > < a simple democracy in which the heads of families met fortnightly to consult about … matters — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > f. < simple inherited characters > g. (1) < a simple mineral > (2) 7. a. < simple contract > b. c. < simple obligation > — compare fee simple 8. < our mother … was as complex as our father was simple — L.C.Powys > < the causes … lie deep, and to explain them is not simple — William Petersen > < nontechnical, clear-cut, easily understandable, simple step-by-step … rules which could be used by the average person — W.J.Reilly > Synonyms: < she's rather simple, poor dear, and she thinks we're all wonderful — W.S.Maugham > < you are fretting about General Tilucy, and that is very simple of you — Jane Austen > foolish may indicate a mere lack of judgment or discretion or capricious failure to employ good sense and seriousness < virtuous or vicious, thrifty or careless, wise or foolish — G.B.Shaw > < but foolish man foregoes his proper bliss — William Cowper > silly may describe gross lack of judgment; it may connote folly, inanity, or nonsense < the cut of her chiffon dress hinted that she had a silly conception of romance — Rebecca West > < the vapid and silly chatter of ordinary sociability — J.C.Powys > fatuous is likely to involve fond, delusive, obtuse foolishness and disregard of reality < with fatuous beaming he described a night at Barney's; without any success whatever, he tried to be funny — Sinclair Lewis > < her haughtiness in the day of glory was simply fatuous, based on stupidity — Arnold Bennett > < a number of fatuous theories about the connection of Central American culture with that of the Old World have been broached — Edward Clodd > asinine describes utter failure to exercise normal intelligence, rationality, or perception < his reply was simply contemptuous … “What an asinine question!” — Bram Stoker > < their cumulative efforts have resulted in the most asinine and inept movie that has come out of Hollywood in years — John McCarten > Synonym: see in addition easy, natural, plain, pure. II. 1. a. < thought very little of anybody, simples or gentry — Virginia Woolf > b. (1) < universal education destroyed the advantage which the shrewd had over the simple — Reinhold Niebuhr > (2) < buffoons … were usually simples or hunchbacks — J.S.Clarke > 2. a. < the herb garden and barn redolent with drying bunches of simples — Lucy Embury > b. < herbs for their homely simples — Flora Thompson > 3. 4. simples plural, dialect chiefly England < you should be cut for the simples this morning — Jonathan Swift > 5. 6. III. 1. obsolete < as simple as I stand here — Ben Jonson > 2. dialect IV. intransitive verb transitive verb < simple the engine in starting a heavy freight train > V. of a statistical hypothesis |
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