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simple-minded

/sim-puhl-mahyn-did, -mahyn-/US // ˈsɪm pəlˈmaɪn dɪd, -ˌmaɪn- //

憨厚,憨厚的,憨态可掬,简单

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
    • : lacking in mental acuteness or sense.
    • : mentally deficient.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • They will reach you by the hands of Mr. Mackenzie, a worldly-minded Scotch merchant, but honest as to earthly things.

  • 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.

  • You may imagine the effect this missive produced upon the proud, high-minded doctor of divinity.

  • Let us look over these points again, and make the matter still clearer and more simple.