easy
adjective /ˈiːzi/
/ˈiːzi/
(comparative easier, superlative easiest)
Idioms 容易的;轻易的;不费力的 - an easy way to make bread
制作面包的简单方法 - Reaching the summit is no easy task.
到达顶峰不是一件容易的事。 - an easy win/victory
轻松的胜利 - It's much easier if you speak the language.
如果你说这种语言就容易多了。 - easy to do something It's easy to forget how we lived before the internet.
很容易忘记我们在互联网出现之前的生活。 - The tool is quick and easy to use.
这个工具又快又好用。 - Their house isn't the easiest place to get to.
他们的房子可不容易到。 - There are no easy answers in cases like this.
在这种情况下没有简单的答案。 - Several schools are within easy reach (= not far away).
几所学校都在附近不远处。 - easy for somebody (to do something) It's easy for you to criticize.
你很容易批评。 - He didn't make it easy for me to leave.
他并没有轻易让我离开。 - It can't be easy for her, on her own with the children.
她一个人带着这些孩子绝非易事。
Topics Working lifea1- Doing all that while injured isn't exactly easy.
受了伤还要一直那样做谈何容易。 - The homepage provides easy access to commonly used links.
主页提供了对常用链接的简单访问。 - The easiest solution would be to create a new storage area.
最简单的解决方案是创建一个新的存储区域。 - The plant is relatively easy to identify.
这种植物相对容易识别。 - We all know the system needs fixing, but it's not that easy.
我们都知道这个系统需要修复,但这并不容易。 - I found the book easy to read.
我发现这本书很容易阅读。 - I found the exam quite easy.
我觉得这次考试很容易。 - It is easy enough to see how it happened.
弄明白这是怎么发生的还比较容易。 - It is the easiest thing in the world to blame your parents.
最容易的就是凡事归咎父母。 - vegetables that are easy to grow
容易种植的蔬菜 - It looks deceptively easy to hit the ball into the hole.
看起来似乎很容易就可以把球打进洞里,其实不然。 - It was all too easy to forget why we had been sent there.
很容易会忘记我们为什么被派往那里。 - Playing tennis is not as easy as it looks.
打网球没有看上去那么简单。 - The written test was ridiculously easy.
笔试容易得离谱。 - These changes should make your job easier.
这些改变应可让你的工作更轻松一些。 - Writing is not easy for her.
写作对她来说不容易。 - a book designed for quick and easy reference
设计得查阅起来快捷又方便的一本书 - It's easy for you to tell me to keep calm, but you're not in my position.
你叫我保持冷静当然容易,那是你没到我这份儿上。 - Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship off court.
在比赛中获胜并未使他们在场下的关系变得融洽。 - There are no easy answers to a problem like this.
像这样的问题没有简单的答案。 - This encyclopedia is designed for quick and easy reference.
这部百科全书的特点在于查阅资料快捷、方便。 - It's easy for you to tell me to keep calm, but you're not in my position.
你叫我保持冷静当然容易,那是你没到我这份儿上。 - It would be the easiest thing in the world to fall in love with him.
爱上他将是世界上最容易的事情。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- seem
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- for
- all too easy
- as easy as 1, 2, 3
- as easy as ABC
- …
- an easy way to make bread
舒适的;安逸的;安心的 - He has not had an easy life.
他的生活并不轻松。 - I don't feel easy about letting the kids go out alone.
让孩子们单独出去我不放心。 - Things are getting easier for us.
事情对我们来说越来越容易了。
- He was promised a nice easy retirement.
他被许诺过一个舒适的退休生活。 - I've had a very easy day at work.
我今天工作很轻松。 - I'll agree to anything for an easy life.
只要有安逸舒适的生活我什么都同意。 - She's a sociable kid who seems equally easy with children and adults.
她是一个善于交际的孩子,似乎对孩子和成年人都一样容易相处。 - a sophisticated audience that feels easy with ambiguity
感觉很容易含糊不清的老练观众 - He's perfectly easy about his lack of ambition.
他对自己缺乏野心非常宽容。 - I felt a bit easier after that.
从那以后,我觉得轻松了一些。 - Racism is never a comfortable or easy topic to raise in multicultural classrooms.
在多元文化的课堂上,种族主义从来都不是一个舒服或容易提出的话题。
- He has not had an easy life.
- [only before noun] open to attack; not able to defend yourself
易受攻击的;无自卫能力的;容易吃亏的 - She's an easy target for their criticisms.
她很容易成为他们抨击的目标。 - The baby fish are easy prey for birds.
这些小鱼很容易被鸟类捕食。
- She's an easy target for their criticisms.
- [only before noun] pleasant and friendly
synonym easy-going随和的;平易近人的 - He had an easy manner.
他举止从容。 - His easy charm soon won her over.
他潇洒自如的魅力让他很快赢得了她的支持。
- He had an easy manner.
- [not usually before noun] (informal, disapproving) (of women
) willing to have sex with many different people女人 水性杨花;轻浮;放荡 see also easily
词源Middle English (also in the sense ‘comfortable, tranquil’): from Old French aisie, past participle of aisier ‘put at ease, facilitate’, from the phrase a aise ‘at ease’.
Idioms
as easy as anything/as pie/as ABC/as falling off a log
- (informal) very easy or very easily
十分容易;极容易;轻而易举 - The whole procedure is as easy as ABC.
整个程序和ABC一样简单。 - Fooling him was as easy as falling off a log.
愚弄他就像从木头上掉下来一样容易。
- The whole procedure is as easy as ABC.
an easy/a soft touch
- (informal) a person that you can easily persuade to do something, especially to give you money
(尤指在钱财方面)有求必应的人,耳根子软的人 - Unfortunately, my father is no easy touch.
不幸的是,我父亲不容易接近。
- Unfortunately, my father is no easy touch.
easy meat
- a person who seems easy to defeat or cheat
很接近;靠近 - Rogue traders saw elderly people as easy meat for overcharging.
流氓商贩把老年人看做容易多收的肉。
- Rogue traders saw elderly people as easy meat for overcharging.
easy money
- (informal) money that you get without having to work very hard for it
来得容易的钱
easy on the ear/eye
- (informal) pleasant to listen to or look at
好听/好看的;悦耳/悦目的 - The room was painted in soft pastels that were easy on the eye.
房间用柔和的彩色粉笔画,很容易看出来。
- The room was painted in soft pastels that were easy on the eye.
an/a/the easy/soft option
- (often disapproving) a choice that is thought to be easier because it involves less effort, difficulty, etc.
轻松的选择;捷径 - They are anxious that the new course should not be seen as an easy option.
他们担心新课程不应被视为一个容易的选择。 - He decided to take the easy option and give them what they wanted.
他决定顺水推舟,他们要什么就给什么。
- They are anxious that the new course should not be seen as an easy option.
free and easy
- informal; relaxed
随便;无拘束;轻松;自由自在 - Life was never going to be so free and easy again.
生活绝不会再那样无拘无束了。
- Life was never going to be so free and easy again.
have an easy ride | give somebody an easy ride
- (informal) to not experience difficulties when you are doing something; to make things easy for somebody
(使)举步维艰(或一帆风顺) - He was not given an altogether easy ride at the interview.
他在面试中没有得到完全的轻松。
- He was not given an altogether easy ride at the interview.
have an easy time (of it)
- to have no difficulties or problems
日子好过;过得舒适;毫无困难 - He’s had an easy time of it since he married Lucy.
自从和露西结婚后,他过得很轻松。
- He’s had an easy time of it since he married Lucy.
I’m easy
- (informal) used to say that you do not have a strong opinion when somebody has offered you a choice
我随便;我好办;我无所谓 - ‘Do you want to watch this or the news?’ ‘Oh, I'm easy. It's up to you.’
“你想看这个节目还是看新闻?” “噢,我随便。你决定吧。”
- ‘Do you want to watch this or the news?’ ‘Oh, I'm easy. It's up to you.’
of easy virtue
- (old-fashioned) (of a woman
) willing to have sex with anyone女人 水性杨花;轻浮;放荡 - a woman of easy virtue
水性杨花的女人。
- a woman of easy virtue
on easy street
- (old-fashioned, informal) enjoying a comfortable way of life with plenty of money
环境舒适;生活优裕;安定富足
take the easy way out
- to end a difficult situation by choosing the simplest solution even if it is not the best one
以最简单的方法解决难题;快刀斩乱麻 - He took the easy way out and didn’t go to the meeting.
他采取了简单的办法,没有去开会。 - She took the easy way out and paid someone to write the article for her.
她采取了简单的方法,花钱请人给她写文章。
- He took the easy way out and didn’t go to the meeting.
within (easy) reach (of something)
- close to something
很接近;靠近 - The house is within easy reach of schools and sports facilities.
这房子距离学校和体育设施都很近。 - Verona and Padua are both within easy reach for day trips.
维罗纳和帕多瓦都是短途旅行的好去处。 - a holiday town within reach of Marseilles
离马赛很近的一个度假小镇
- The house is within easy reach of schools and sports facilities.