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simple ['simpl]
a. 简单的, 普通的, 朴素的, 单纯的, 绝对的, 初级的, 原始的, 迟钝的
n. 出身低微者, 傻子
[医] 单纯的; 药草(古名)
simple
[ noun ]
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
<noun.plant>
<noun.person>
- having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
- (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
- easy and not involved or complicated
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
- lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- unornamented
<adj.all>
a simple problem
simple mechanisms
a simple design
a simple substance
<adj.all>
<adj.all>
an elementary problem in statistics
elementary, my dear Watson
a simple game
found an uncomplicated solution to the problem
<adj.all>
only the bare facts
shocked by the mere idea
the simple passage of time was enough
the simple truth
<adj.all>
childlike trust
dewy-eyed innocence
listened in round-eyed wonder
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<adj.all>
a simple country schoolhouse
her black dress--simple to austerity
Simple \Sim"ple\, a. [Compar. {Simpler}; superl. {Simplest}.]
[F., fr. L. simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first
part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the
sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one
to each, single. Cg. {Single}, a., {Same}, a., and for the
last part of the word cf. {Double}, {Complex}.]
1. Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled;
uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something
else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple
idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem;
simple tasks.
2. Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress. ``Simple truth.''
--Spenser. ``His simple story.'' --Burns.
3. Mere; not other than; being only.
A medicine . . . whose simple touch
Is powerful to araise King Pepin. --Shak.
4. Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity;
undesigning; sincere; true.
Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I
stand here, and I trust them. --Marston.
Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue? --Byron.
To be simple is to be great. --Emerson.
5. Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural;
inartificial;; straightforward.
In simple manners all the secret lies. --Young.
6. Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical;
as, a simple statement; simple language.
7. Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate
understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly. ``You
have simple wits.'' --Shak.
The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man
looketh well to his going. --Prov. xiv.
15.
8. Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple
diet; a simple way of living.
Thy simple fare and all thy plain delights.
--Cowper.
9. Humble; lowly; undistinguished.
A simple husbandman in garments gray. --Spenser.
Clergy and laity, male and female, gentle and simple
made the fuel of the same fire. --Fuller.
10. (BOt.) Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a
simple leaf.
11. (Chem.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything
more simple or ultimate by any means at present known;
elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies.
Cf. {Ultimate}, a.
Note: A simple body is one that has not as yet been
decomposed. There are indications that many of our
simple elements are still compound bodies, though their
actual decomposition into anything simpler may never be
accomplished.
12. (Min.) Homogenous.
13. (Zo["o]l.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid;
as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.
{Simple contract} (Law), any contract, whether verbal or
written, which is not of record or under seal. --J. W.
Smith. --Chitty.
{Simple equation} (Alg.), an equation containing but one
unknown quantity, and that quantity only in the first
degree.
{Simple eye} (Zo["o]l.), an eye having a single lens; --
opposed to {compound eye}.
{Simple interest}. See under {Interest}.
{Simple larceny}. (Law) See under {Larceny}.
{Simple obligation} (Rom. Law), an obligation which does not
depend for its execution upon any event provided for by
the parties, or is not to become void on the happening of
any such event. --Burrill.
Syn: Single; uncompounded; unmingled; unmixed; mere;
uncombined; elementary; plain; artless; sincere;
harmless; undesigning; frank; open; unaffected;
inartificial; unadorned; credulous; silly; foolish;
shallow; unwise.
Usage: {Simple}, {Silly}. One who is simple is sincere,
unaffected, and inexperienced in duplicity, -- hence
liable to be duped. A silly person is one who is
ignorant or weak and also self-confident; hence, one
who shows in speech and act a lack of good sense.
Simplicity is incompatible with duplicity, artfulness,
or vanity, while silliness is consistent with all
three. Simplicity denotes lack of knowledge or of
guile; silliness denotes want of judgment or right
purpose, a defect of character as well as of
education.
I am a simple woman, much too weak
To oppose your cunning. --Shak.
He is the companion of the silliest people in
their most silly pleasure; he is ready for every
impertinent entertainment and diversion. --Law.
Simple \Sim"ple\, v. i.
To gather simples, or medicinal plants.
As simpling on the flowery hills she [Circe] strayed.
--Garth.
Simple \Sim"ple\, n. [F. See {Simple}, a.]
1. Something not mixed or compounded. ``Compounded of many
simples.'' --Shak.
2. (Med.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each
vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue,
and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked
simple itself as it comes over from the Indies.
--Sir W.
Temple.
3. (Weaving)
(a) A drawloom.
(b) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a
drawloom.
4. (R. C. Ch.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
[F., fr. L. simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first
part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the
sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one
to each, single. Cg. {Single}, a., {Same}, a., and for the
last part of the word cf. {Double}, {Complex}.]
1. Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled;
uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something
else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple
idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem;
simple tasks.
2. Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress. ``Simple truth.''
--Spenser. ``His simple story.'' --Burns.
3. Mere; not other than; being only.
A medicine . . . whose simple touch
Is powerful to araise King Pepin. --Shak.
4. Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity;
undesigning; sincere; true.
Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I
stand here, and I trust them. --Marston.
Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue? --Byron.
To be simple is to be great. --Emerson.
5. Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural;
inartificial;; straightforward.
In simple manners all the secret lies. --Young.
6. Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical;
as, a simple statement; simple language.
7. Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate
understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly. ``You
have simple wits.'' --Shak.
The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man
looketh well to his going. --Prov. xiv.
15.
8. Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple
diet; a simple way of living.
Thy simple fare and all thy plain delights.
--Cowper.
9. Humble; lowly; undistinguished.
A simple husbandman in garments gray. --Spenser.
Clergy and laity, male and female, gentle and simple
made the fuel of the same fire. --Fuller.
10. (BOt.) Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a
simple leaf.
11. (Chem.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything
more simple or ultimate by any means at present known;
elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies.
Cf. {Ultimate}, a.
Note: A simple body is one that has not as yet been
decomposed. There are indications that many of our
simple elements are still compound bodies, though their
actual decomposition into anything simpler may never be
accomplished.
12. (Min.) Homogenous.
13. (Zo["o]l.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid;
as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.
{Simple contract} (Law), any contract, whether verbal or
written, which is not of record or under seal. --J. W.
Smith. --Chitty.
{Simple equation} (Alg.), an equation containing but one
unknown quantity, and that quantity only in the first
degree.
{Simple eye} (Zo["o]l.), an eye having a single lens; --
opposed to {compound eye}.
{Simple interest}. See under {Interest}.
{Simple larceny}. (Law) See under {Larceny}.
{Simple obligation} (Rom. Law), an obligation which does not
depend for its execution upon any event provided for by
the parties, or is not to become void on the happening of
any such event. --Burrill.
Syn: Single; uncompounded; unmingled; unmixed; mere;
uncombined; elementary; plain; artless; sincere;
harmless; undesigning; frank; open; unaffected;
inartificial; unadorned; credulous; silly; foolish;
shallow; unwise.
Usage: {Simple}, {Silly}. One who is simple is sincere,
unaffected, and inexperienced in duplicity, -- hence
liable to be duped. A silly person is one who is
ignorant or weak and also self-confident; hence, one
who shows in speech and act a lack of good sense.
Simplicity is incompatible with duplicity, artfulness,
or vanity, while silliness is consistent with all
three. Simplicity denotes lack of knowledge or of
guile; silliness denotes want of judgment or right
purpose, a defect of character as well as of
education.
I am a simple woman, much too weak
To oppose your cunning. --Shak.
He is the companion of the silliest people in
their most silly pleasure; he is ready for every
impertinent entertainment and diversion. --Law.
Simple \Sim"ple\, v. i.
To gather simples, or medicinal plants.
As simpling on the flowery hills she [Circe] strayed.
--Garth.
Simple \Sim"ple\, n. [F. See {Simple}, a.]
1. Something not mixed or compounded. ``Compounded of many
simples.'' --Shak.
2. (Med.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each
vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue,
and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked
simple itself as it comes over from the Indies.
--Sir W.
Temple.
3. (Weaving)
(a) A drawloom.
(b) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a
drawloom.
4. (R. C. Ch.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- "The item veto is not a simple, politically neutral device for bringing about economy and efficiency in government.
- Alas, the simple fact of being menaced with my own spade has warped my catalog reading.
- But in the world of economic policy, a lot depends on how simple ideas are fitted together and where the stress is placed.
- RARELY HAS a UK government agonised so long and hard about an apparently simple question.
- What was intended to be a simple gesture of international friendship has turned into a source of embarrassment for Missouri highway and economic development officials.
- For Massport executive director David Davis, all the fuss obscures a simple issue: Logan, which is expected to handle 37 million passengers annually by the year 2000, up from 23 million last year, will become hopelessly gridlocked without changes.
- Mortgage-Backed Securities At a time when derivative mortgage securities are becoming increasingly complex, Ryland Acceptanc Corp. proved that a simple structure can generate strong investor demand.
- And, some of the cuts Start mandates in superpower arsenals might be made anyway because of simple budget restraints in the U.S. and Moscow.
- Or why the most simple fact involving the location of the coroner's office eludes everyone on this case for years.
- Mr. Kohl's trick is simple.
- Instead of quick cuts with no story line, they are talking about simple messsages and traditional storytelling.
- Immigration commissioner Alan Nelson was put on the spot at a news conference Thursday when a reporter told him critics of the INS say that the civics test questions are not as simple as Nelson suggests.
- The record shows that culture cannot be an important hindrance to prosperity, for a simple reason: culture changes slowly, but economic performance changes rapidly.
- At this institution we make a distinction between prophylactic mastectomy and mastectomy for risk reduction. Prophylactic mastectomy is a simple mastectomy that removes essentially all breast tissue and theoretically reduces the risk of cancer to zero.
- "What is a very simple task becomes very complicated" in Chapter 11, he says.
- "It was a simple misunderstanding that I can understand," the lawyer said. "He obviously exercised poor judgment.
- Other witnesses said the problem of child abuse was compounded by jurisdictional problems, the isolation of the reservations and a simple lack of money.
- The witnesses said there was little the United States could do to break up the oil cartel and that meantime, the simple laws of supply and demand would govern the price of oil.
- The secret is to build up simple, toning layers in warm shades which might have come from a spice rack - curry, saffron, mustard, cinnamon and sage.
- Manasara said the residents confounded the Israeli by refusing to answer simple questions about their place of work.
- With an acreage of white wood and tiles, offset with jade fittings, it appears effortlessly simple, but the simplicity is cleverly crafted.
- But the architect Ancelet's strong, simple lines are as harmonious as they are imposing.
- The sale started in 1950 out of simple necessity, Tibbets recalled.
- As for Mr. Bush, the question is simple.
- Country music singer-songwriter Tom T. Hall has some simple advice for aspiring performers: don't miss an appearance.
- Under them, simple decisions are taken by the Commission's merger task force and only initialled by the commissioner.
- Skeptics, including Intel's competitors NCube of Beaverton, Ore., and Cray Research Inc. of Minneapolis, wonder if the new machine can actually reach that computation speed even for simple problems.
- Koppers, however, has consistently contended that Shearson's stake in BNS gives the firm actual voting rights in BNS, which goes far beyond a simple bridge loan.
- The premise was simple: Brown as a divorced New York woman struggling with an irresponsible ex-husband, a fretful mom and a nonexistent career.
- The importance _ and difficulty _ of fund raising is not lost on Heath, who offered this simple assessment during a trip to Washington seeking political action committee support: "You're just sort of shamelessly begging.
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