Plain

(noun.) extensive tract of level open land; 'they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain'; 'he longed for the fields of his youth'.

(adj.) lacking embellishment or ornamentation; 'a plain hair style'; 'unembellished white walls'; 'functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete' .

(adj.) free from any effort to soften to disguise; 'the plain and unvarnished truth'; 'the unvarnished candor of old people and children' .

(adj.) lacking patterns especially in color .

(adj.) not elaborate or elaborated; simple; 'plain food'; 'stuck to the plain facts'; 'a plain blue suit'; 'a plain rectangular brick building' .

(adj.) not mixed with extraneous elements; 'plain water'; 'sheer wine'; 'not an unmixed blessing' .

整理:薇尔玛

• He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Under existing circumstances, however, she is dressed in a plain, spare gown of brown stuff. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• All the other furniture is plain and serviceable, you perceive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I knew there were plenty of side-roads across the plain. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• We have been at some pains in this history to make plain the development of these differences. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His speech had been whispered, broken, and indistinct; but by a great effort he had made it plain enough to be unmistakeable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I see you there a many times, as plain as ever I see you on them misty marshes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Wandering savages or the inhabitants of open plains rarely possess more than one breed of the same species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I have not seen animals that moved faster, unless I might say it of the antelopes of our own great plains. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Many great cities and plains and deserts have been provided with these wells owing to the ease with which they can now be sunk. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In the saddle --abroad on the plains--sleeping in beds bounded only by the horizon: fancy was at work with these things in a moment. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Cities situated in plains and remote from mountains are obliged to utilize the water of such streams as flow through the land, forcing it to the necessary height by means of pumps. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• They are generally sunk in valley plains and districts where the formation of the ground is such that that below the surface is bent into basin-shaped curves. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They were, perhaps, not so far advanced along the nomadic line as the Scythians of the great plains. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I thought her, then, still more colourless and thin than when I had seen her last; the flashing eyes still brighter, and the scar still plainer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Therefore I checked myself, and made my meaning plainer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In plainer terms still, the transaction, for anything that Lady Glyde knows to the contrary, may be a fraud upon her unborn children. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Never certainly have I seen a plainer confession of guilt upon human countenances. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He said the countenance could disclose what was passing in the heart plainer than the tongue could. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The wagon rattled, jumped, almost flew, over the frozen ground; but plainer, and still plainer, came the noise of pursuing horsemen behind. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Never did tone express indifference plainer. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• If that were so, my sacrifice was nothing; my plainest obligation to her unfulfilled; and every poor action I had shrunk from, I was hourly doing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• As she was determined to have her answer, I gave it to her in the plainest possible form. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The disclosure of the conspiracy followed, after I had offered my preliminary explanation, first of all, in the fewest and the plainest words. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• All this is an object of the plainest experience, and depends not on any hypothesis of philosophy. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I hesitate about Sir Percival, in the face of the plainest proofs. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I have now told her, in the plainest terms, that my apprehensions have been realised. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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