plain
音标：
英音/ pleɪn / 美音/ pleɪn /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
The challenge for authorities now is to stop the problem at its root and dismantle the suspected serious organised crime gangs – which may have been profiting in plain sight for years on our High Streets.
现在，当局面临的挑战是要停止该问题的根源，并拆除可疑的严重有组织的犯罪团伙 – 在我们的大街上，这可能已经在朴素的视线中获利了。
—BBC
“This doesn’t make me feel good at all, your intentions are in plain sight.”
“这并不能使我感觉很好，您的意图很明显。”
—BBC
“The cause of deaths was plain negligence. They put too many people in a small boat that couldn’t even carry five people,” she said.
她说：“死亡原因是明显的疏忽。他们把太多的人放在一条甚至无法携带五个人的小船上。”
—BBC
基本释意：
adjective
not elaborate or elaborated; simple
无装饰的，朴素的；单色的，无花纹的；单纯的，不掺杂的；显而易见的；（书面或口头用法）表达清楚的；直截了当的，坦率的；相貌平平的；普通的；直呼其名的；完全的；（编织）平针的
同义词：
没有找到同义词
短释义：
Plain comes from the Latin word planum, meaning “level ground.” That’s one meaning of the word, as in a flat prairie or low lying coastal flood plain. If something is in plain view, it’s out in the open with no obstructions. But usually we use plain as an adjective to describe unembellished, bare, or unimpressive things. A white room with just an old bed and a chair is pretty plain.
简单的事情很简单，毫无任性，甚至有点无聊。成为一个简单的说话者意味着您不使用自命不凡的，花哨的话。但是，拥有简单的脸意味着您没有什么可看的。
长释义：
Plain comes from the Latin word planum, meaning “level ground.” That’s one meaning of the word, as in a flat prairie or low lying coastal flood plain. If something is in plain view, it’s out in the open with no obstructions. But usually we use plain as an adjective to describe unembellished, bare, or unimpressive things. A white room with just an old bed and a chair is pretty plain.
平原来自拉丁单词平面，意思是“级别的基础”。这就是这个词的含义，例如在平坦的草原或低躺的沿海洪水平原上。如果有些东西在朴素的视野中，它就会开放，没有障碍物。但是通常，我们将平原用作形容词来描述毫无意义的，裸露或不可思议的事物。一个只有一张旧床和椅子的白色房间很普通。
文学例句：
When it comes to food, there are only a few types that he will eat happily: plain rice, plain pasta, plain paratha, plain pizza, chicken nuggets, Cap’n Crunch, and cookies.
当涉及食物时，只有几种可以愉快地吃的类型：普通的米饭，普通的意大利面，普通的帕拉萨，普通的披萨，鸡块，帽子脆皮和饼干。
—Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun by Hena Khan
Now, I don’t really blame him—I’d met his mom, and I wouldn’t want her mad at me either—but I was just plain mad too.
现在，我不是真的怪他 – 我遇到了他的妈妈，我也不想让她生我的气 – 但是我也很生气。
—Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones
Their exposed layers had as many colors as a magistrate’s robes, from the yellow sand of the desert to the red dirt of the nearby Kashgar plain.
从沙漠的黄色沙滩到附近的喀什平原的红色污垢，他们裸露的层与地方法官的长袍一样多。
—The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri
词源：
plain(adj.)c. 1300, “flat, smooth,” from Old French plain “flat, smooth, even” (12c.), from Latin planus “flat, even, level” (from PIE root *pele- (2) “flat; to spread”). Sense of “explicit, clear, evident” is from late 14c.; that of “free from obstruction” is mid-14c.; meaning “simple, sincere, ordinary” is recorded from late 14c., especially of dress, “unembellished, without decoration, unadorned.” Of words, speech, etc., “direct and to the point,” late 14c. As an adverb from late 14c.
In reference to the dress and speech of Quakers, it is recorded from 1824; of Amish and Mennonites, from 1894 (in the Dutch regions of Pennsylvania Plain with the capital is shorthand adjective for “Amish and Old Order Mennonite”). Of appearance, as a euphemism for “ill-favored, ugly” it dates from 1749. Of envelopes from 1913.
Plain English is from c. 1500. Plain dealer “one who speaks his opinions candidly; one who is frank, honest, and open” is from 1570s, marked “Now rare” in OED 2nd edition, though it survives since 1842 as the name of the main newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio. To be as plain as the nose on (one’s) face “obvious” is from 1690s.also from c. 1300
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
平原（调整）c。 1300，“平坦，光滑”，来自旧法国平原“平坦，平滑，甚至”（12c。），拉丁语平面“平面，均匀，级别”（从馅饼根 *pele *pele-（2）“平坦； “明确，清晰，明显的感觉”是从14c后期开始的； “无障碍”是14c中期。意思是“简单，真诚，普通”的意思是从14c后期记录，尤其是衣服，“没有装饰，没有装饰”。 14c后期的言语，语音等。作为14c后期的副词。关于贵格会的着装和讲话，它是从1824年开始的；从1894年开始的阿米什人和门诺人（在宾夕法尼亚州平原的荷兰地区，首都是“阿米什人和旧秩序的门诺派”的速记形容词）。外观，作为“不利，丑陋”的委婉说法，其历史可以追溯到1749年。 1500年。平原经销商“一个坦率地发表自己的意见的人；一个坦率，诚实和开放的人”是1570年代，在OED第二版中标有“现在很少见”，尽管它自1842年以来一直以来是俄亥俄州克利夫兰的主要报纸的名称。与鼻子上的鼻子一样朴素（一个显而易见的脸）是从1690年开始的。 1300
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