| 单词 | easy |
| 释义 | easy I. 1. < it was easy to sit on a camel's back without falling off but very difficult to get the best out of her — T.E.Lawrence > < ritual is not easy compliance with detailed and punctilious rule — W.G.Sumner > < an easy victim … of this good-natured diplomatist — W.M.Thackeray > < feeding this outfit would have been easy for an old hand — American Guide Series: Arizona > < the St. Lawrence route is … easy of navigation — B.K.Sandwell > 2. a. < you are … so easy that every servant will cheat you — Jane Austen > < we really ought to be easy on him because everybody makes mistakes — V.G.Heiser > b. < this is the easy country of the pass where the stream flows gently — Ernest Hemingway > < terraced steps rise in easy flights — American Guide Series: Michigan > < a pleasant easy angle — Richard Jefferies > c. < brought him back by easy stages — Willa Cather > d. < an easy penalty > < an easy contract > < William Pitt … condemned the Peace of Paris as too easy — Stringfellow Barr > e. (1) < women of the easy kind, the lusty kind, the ardent and the impudent — T.H.Raddall > (2) < fell an easy prey to her wiles > (3) < in winter upland game birds are easy victims to predators where cover is poor > < exhausted by overwork he was an easy victim to infection > f. (1) < he won an easy victory > (2) of money, credit, or commodities < farmers generally want easier money > < the hog market has been irregular and easy for several days > — compare easy-money g. < easy language — no strain upon either adult or youthful reader — J.D.Hart > 3. a. < retired and living an easy life > < the easy warmth of most southern cities — Green Peyton > b. < an easy walk through the meadow > < the easy climate of the island > < a stretch of easy water — C.S.Forester > 4. a. < the patient was easier after the sedative > b. < easy and familiar manners of men who had worked for years together — Sir Winston Churchill > < the easy carriage of a man born to a dignified place in life — Jack London > c. < his easy disposition made him fall in unresistingly with the family courses — George Eliot > < the easy, irreligious gay society which jumped the life to come — H.O.Taylor > d. < an easy and dignified calm, far removed from the intensity of life — Thomas Hardy > < men who fish for a living must have an easy courage — Mary H. Vorse > e. < he married an heiress and found himself in easy circumstances — Times Literary Supplement > f. < he wrote in an easy, rapid, flowing style — H.S.Robinson > g. < an easy familiarity with his subject > < easy emotions > h. < looking an easy 35 in the harsh light > < an easy two hours' work > < weighs an easy 200 > 5. a. < easy furniture > < an easy arrangement of the room > b. (1) < got very easy terms from his creditors > (2) of payments < furnished his house on an easy-payment plan > c. of a garment < an easy shoe > < an easy fit > 6. a. b. Australia Synonyms: < he found his studies too easy to require serious attention, and, being very large and strong, he devoted his energies to athletics — E.S.Bates > < the English owe more to their national home than do most nations. Its insular situation made it readily accessible in time of peace and easy to defend in time of war — Kemp Malone > facile, sometimes a close synonym of easy, now applies to execution, accomplishment, or performance seemingly without effort or with very little effort; sometimes it is derogatory in implying undue haste or careless execution < full of facile theories, with glib explanations of everything — Bertrand Russell > < Chrétien is a facile narrator, with little sense of the significance that might be given to the stories — H.O.Taylor > simple stresses ease in comprehending and freedom from complexity or intricacy < feeding this outfit would have been easy for an old hand, but it was far from simple to me — American Guide Series: Arizona > < the English mother or the English nurse has a simpler job. She must teach her charge to start as few fights as possible and that there are rules. That is enough — Margaret Mead > light involves freedom from the onerous or burdensome < college teaching job — preferably where your formal duties are as light as you can decently make them — W.G.Carleton > < it was no light thing to encounter the rage and despair of fifty thousand fighting men — T.B.Macaulay > effortless suggests appearance of ease and often implies perfected artistry or mastery < so that attention became concentration, and concentration became at first effortless, then involuntary — Charles Morgan > < that effortless grace with which only a true poet can endow his work — Martha O. Smith > smooth suggests absence of obstacles, hindrances, unevenness, interruptions < the smooth advance of the German Army into France in 1940 — S.L.A.Marshall > < by the time he had warmed up his motors, the sky had cleared and it was day. The takeoff was smooth as cream — John Dos Passos > Synonym: see in addition comfortable. II. 1. < easy come, easy go > < take it easy > < my boots went on easy > 2. < go easy here, the road is very rough > < worked easy until his muscles loosened up > : without undue excitement — often used interjectionally to suggest proceeding with caution < easy, the road's washed out just ahead > or calming down < easy, there's nothing to be afraid of now > III. IV. intransitive verb < the crew easied on approaching the dock > — often used as a command, sometimes with all < easy all > transitive verb V. — a communications code word for the letter e |
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