英语释义

1. lacking ornament undecorated

2. free of extraneous matter pure

3. free of impediments to view unobstructed

4. evident to the mind or senses obvious
it's perfectly plain that they will resist

5. clear
let me make my meaning plain

6. marked by outspoken candor free from duplicity or subtlety blunt
plain talk

7. belonging to the masses common

8. lacking special distinction or affectation ordinary

9. characterized by simplicity not complicated
plain home-cooked meals

10. lacking beauty or ugliness

11. even, level

12. an extensive area of level or rolling treeless country

13. a broad unbroken expanse

14. something free from artifice, ornament, or extraneous matter

15. in a plain manner without obscurity or ambiguity
saw them clearly and told you plain
— Amer. Documentation

16. absolutely sense 1a
plain wrong

17. complain

18. having no pattern or decoration

19. not having any added or extra things

20. easy to see or understand

21. a large area of flat land without trees

22. having no pattern or decoration
a plain jacket

23. not handsome or beautiful

24. not hard to do or understand
The lesson was explained in plain words. The directions were plain.

25. without anything having been added
He eats plain yogurt.

26. open and clear to the sight
I left my money in plain view.

27. frank
The judge is famous for her plain speaking.

28. of common or average accomplishments or position ordinary
just plain folks

29. a large area of level or rolling treeless land

30. without any question to a complete degree
… she's just plain jealous when I'm at the piano and she's not.
— Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust

英汉例句

• In his new book, the writer has switched from his usual pompous style to a plainer manner.

  在他的新着中，作者一改他贯有的华丽文风，转而采用了较为朴实的文体。

• Quint, who in the book wore a T-shirt and faded jeans and in the film had a beard and a bandanna , was a plainer dresser.

  昆特船长在书里穿着T恤和褪了色的牛仔裤，在屏幕上则以大胡子和印花大手帕示人。

• In plainer words: These critters are hell-for-leather, flat-out just gonna get there.

  简单地说：这些生物不顾一切、全力以赴，就是为了实现目标。

• And young women, in particular, often tend to prefer cheaper, plainer saris—made by machines and decorated with garish glitter and beadwork.

  况且，尤其是年轻的姑娘们，都会倾向选择价格低廉，样式简单的纱丽——这都是机器制成品，上面会镶着光彩夺目的珠饰。

• It doesn「t get any plainer than that.

  还没有哪个的抱怨能多过它。

• In plainer English that means that an object in motion will tend to want to continue in motion along the same direction until it has a reason not to.

  在英语中这个词的意思是一个运动中的物体会想要保持在原来方向运动，直到有原因改变这样。

• The researchers have found beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts and that a higher proportion of those children are female.

  科研人员发现漂亮的女性会比那些容貌一般的女性有更多的后代，而这些后代中很大一部分的比例还是女性。

• or by having an effective early-warning system to trigger constructive action when things start to go wrong (or in plainer terms, when states start to collapse).

  当情况不妙时（简单说就是当政体开始崩溃时），会有一个预警系统来启动建设性行动。

• Butt science may have just proved them right because beautiful women are more likely to have daughters than their plainer counterparts, according to a study.

  也许现在已经找到了它的%科学根据，因为一项研究称，漂亮女人比相貌普通的女人更容易生女孩。

• Thee wild look in his eyes spoke plainer than words.

  他那兇暴的目光说明得再清楚不过了。

• Mr Frattini could not have made it plainer that Italy now reckons the Qaddafis are finished and that his country」s economic interests lie in building relations with the opposition.

  法拉迪尼先生已经把话说得不能再直白了，那就是意大利已经认为卡扎菲政权不复存在了，意大利的经济利益在于和反对势力建立关系。

• It could not have been plainer that not one of them was really amused.

  不过更确切的说是们中没有一个真的笑出来。

• These clothes are too fancy for me, I prefer plainer ones.

  这些衣服对我来说有些花哨，我还是喜欢素凈些的。

• A handsome man can earn a fifth more than a plainer colleague but a beautiful woman is not paid a penny more than her average-looking colleague, new research has shown.

  新研究表明，帅哥比长相普通的同事薪水多出五分之一，但美女赚的钱却不会比相貌平平的同事更多。

• Don「t you have a plainer one?

  有更朴素的点的吗？

• There was not only a great increase of books in the world, but the books that were now made were plainer to read and so easier to understand.

  不仅世界上的书籍大幅度增加，而且现在制作的书读起来更清晰，因此也更容易理解。

• The wild look in his eyes spoke plainer than words.

  他那兇暴的目光说明得再清楚不过了。

• But Daniel s Hamermesh also shows that being attractive pays - with good looking employees enjoying more perks and higher pay packets than their plainer colleagues.

  但是经济学教授丹尼尔?s?汉默梅希还指出，长相有吸引力可获利——长得漂亮的雇员比相貌平平的同事津贴多、薪水高。

• In plainer words, the company must change its ways radically.

  简单的说，公司必须进行巨大变革。

• This week it could not have been plainer that he came as prime minister, the first to visit on August 15th in two decades.

  这个星期再也无法掩饰其行为，20年来他首次以首相身份在8月15日参拜。

• There was an air about her which showed plainer than any words that she was both weary and disappointed.

  她身上流露出的神气比任何话语更明白地表示她又累又失望。

• These clothes are too fancy for me, I prefer plainer ones.

  这些衣服对我来说过于花哨，我还是喜欢素凈些的。

• Because simpler membranes are more likely to have formed from the natural organic chemistry factory on prelife Earth, the protocell project is working on plainer lipids - chiefly ordinary fatty acids.

  由于在无生命的地球上，天然有机化学系统很可能形成较简单的膜，所以本次古生物工程也采用较简单的脂质——主要是普通脂肪酸。

• It doesn」t get any plainer than that. And we do not have open discussion because the us Government has totally denied the existence of this technology.

  没有更多的抱怨。同时，我们也没有公开的讨论因为美国政府已经完全否认了这种技术的存在性。

• He found an even plainer demonstration of the existence of atoms.

  他找到了一种更为简明的方法，证明原子的存在。

相似词

bald变秃

bare露出，使赤裸

naked裸体的；无装饰的；无证据的；直率的

simple简单的；单纯的；天真的

unadorned朴素的；未装饰的

undecorated未加装饰的；简朴的

unembellished未装饰的；未修饰的

unornamented朴素的

unvarnished未涂漆的；无装饰的；无掩饰的

相反词

decorated装饰，修饰；粉刷或裱糊（房间），装修；授予（某人）勛章（decorate 的过去式和过去分词）

fancy幻想；想象力；爱好； （赛马等体育比赛中）最被看好的人或动物；（拳击等运动的）爱好者；花式蛋糕或饼干；（16和17世纪音乐用语）幻想曲

ornamented花式字体的