simple
简单,简单的,单纯的,单纯
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sim·pler, sim·plest.
- : easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter;simple tools.
- : not elaborate or artificial; plain: a simple style.
- : not ornate or luxurious; unadorned:a simple gown.
- : unaffected; unassuming; modest: a simple manner.
- : not complicated: a simple design.
- : not complex or compound; single
- : occurring or considered alone; mere; bare: the simple truth;a simple fact.
- : free of deceit or guile; sincere; unconditional: a frank, simple answer.
- : common or ordinary: a simple soldier.
- : not grand or sophisticated; unpretentious: a simple way of life.
- : humble or lowly: simple folk.
- : inconsequential or rudimentary.
- : unlearned; ignorant.
- : lacking mental acuteness or sense: a simple way of thinking.
- : unsophisticated; naive; credulous.
- : simpleminded.
- : Chemistry. composed of only one substance or element: a simple substance.not mixed.
- : Botany. not divided into parts: a simple leaf;a simple stem.
- : Zoology. not compound: a simple ascidian.
- : Music. uncompounded or without overtones; single: simple tone.
- : Grammar. having only the head without modifying elements included: The simple subject of “The dappled pony gazed over the fence” is “pony.”Compare complete.
- : consisting of a main verb with no auxiliaries, as takes or stood.
- : Mathematics. linear.
- : Optics. having two optical surfaces only.
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- : an ignorant, foolish, or gullible person.
- : something simple, unmixed, or uncompounded.
- : simples, Textiles. cords for controlling the warp threads in forming the shed on draw-looms.
- : a person of humble origins; commoner.
- : an herb or other plant used for medicinal purposes: country simples.
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Examples
This will cost a little extra money, but there are several simple after-market modifications you can make to get the most out of your new 4x4.
At Stanford, they were focused mostly on ethanol and methanol, which are simple liquid alcohols.
You can take some simple steps now to make the voting process smoother.
So we felt that during a pandemic, the simplest version of a vaccine is the one that could reach billions of doses.
Based on The Wall Street Journal’s reporting, it seems that Oracle may simple serve as the warehouse for TikTok’s domestic user data.
The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
The reason pilots would choose to use guns over a bomb or a missile is simple.
Still, I worry that a simple traffic stop could have tragic consequences.
“It is the hardest to play,” one of the buglers says of this seemingly simple tune.
The premise was simple: satire is devastating against tyrants.
Smith's method usually gives good results, as does also the more simple method of Hiss (p. 263).
It was a mighty simple transaction, but it produced some startling results for me, that same coin-spinning.
Let us look over these points again, and make the matter still clearer and more simple.
If I selected lucid and simple extracts, they would give no idea of the intricacy and prolixity of Duns.
It has long since dismissed as too short and simple for its pages, the short and simple annals of the poor.