simple

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɪm.pəl/|[ˈsɪm.pɫ̩]    美 /ˈsɪm.pəl/|[ˈsɪm.pɫ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
    — Dere is some simples in my closet, dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.
  2. A physician. broadly,obsolete
  3. A simple or atomic proposition.
    — Peter van Inwagen, for example, believes that there are no ordinary objects, no chairs or shirts or shoes. Right here there are just some simples — atoms or whatever — arranged shoe-wise.
  4. Something not mixed or compounded. obsolete
    — But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels
  5. A drawloom.
  6. Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
  7. A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
动词 v.
  1. To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs. archaic,intransitive,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
    — We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?
  2. Easy; not difficult.
    — There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.
  3. Without ornamentation; plain.
  4. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
    — Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.
  5. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
    — Garak: Who would want to kill me, a simple tailor? / Odo: A simple tailor? A simple tailor who used to be an agent of the Obsidian Order!
  6. Trivial; insignificant. archaic
    — ‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’
    ‘That was a simple cause,’ said Sir Tristram, ‘for to slay a good knight for to say well by his master.’
  7. Feeble-minded; foolish. colloquial,euphemistic
  8. Structurally uncomplicated.; Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
  9. Structurally uncomplicated.; Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.; Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups). broadly
  10. Structurally uncomplicated.; Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.; Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules). broadly
  11. Structurally uncomplicated.; Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.; Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field. broadly
  12. Structurally uncomplicated.; Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.; Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras. broadly,universal
  13. Structurally uncomplicated.; Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.; Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself. broadly
  14. Structurally uncomplicated.; Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
  15. Structurally uncomplicated.; Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
  16. Structurally uncomplicated.; Not compound, but possibly lobed.
  17. Structurally uncomplicated.; Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
    — Chesapeake & Ohio turned to simple articulateds, for instance, simply because its Alleghany tunnels would not accommodate the low-pressure forward cylinders of larger compounds.
  18. Structurally uncomplicated.; Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
    — a simple ascidian
  19. Structurally uncomplicated.; Homogenous.
  20. Mere; not other than; being only. obsolete
    — A medicine […] whose simple touch / Is powerful to araise King Pepin.

词形变化

simpler comparative more simple comparative simplest superlative most simple superlative simples plural simples present,singular,third-person simpling participle,present simpled participle,past simpled past

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词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English symple, simple, from Old French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple”, literally “onefold”) (as opposed to duplex (“double”, literally “twofold”)), from semel (“the same”) + plicō (“to fold”). See same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc.
Partially displaced native English onefold.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English symple, simple, from Old French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple”, literally “onefold”) (as opposed to duplex (“double”, literally “twofold”)), from semel (“the same”) + plicō (“to fold”). See same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc.
Partially displaced native English onefold.
词源 3
Inherited from Middle English symple, simple, from Old French simple, from Latin simplex (“simple”, literally “onefold”) (as opposed to duplex (“double”, literally “twofold”)), from semel (“the same”) + plicō (“to fold”). See same and fold. Compare single, singular, simultaneous, etc.
Partially displaced native English onefold.
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