plain

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /pleɪn/|[pl̥eɪn]    美 /pleɪn/|[pl̥eɪn]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lamentation. poetic,rare
    — The warrior-threat, the infant's plain, The mother's screams, were heard in vain;
  2. An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
    — Him the Ammonite / Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain.
  3. A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
    — Fair ship, that from the Italian shore, ⁠Sailest the placid ocean-plains ⁠With my lost Arthur’s loved remains, Spread thy full wings, and waft him o’er.
  4. Synonym of field in reference to a battlefield. archaic
    — You have stormed no town and found the money there ; neither did you find it in the plains of Plassey after the defeat of the Nawab
  5. Alternative spelling of plane: a flat geometric field. alt-of,alternative,obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To complain. obsolete,reflexive
    — Persones and parisch prestes · pleyned hem to þe bischop / Þat here parisshes were pore · sith þe pestilence tyme […].
  2. To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface. obsolete,transitive
    — Frownst thou thereat aspiring Lancaster, The sworde shall plane the furrowes of thy browes,
  3. To lament, bewail. ambitransitive,archaic,poetic
    — to plain a loss
  4. To make plain or manifest; to explain. obsolete,transitive
    — What’s dumb in show, I’ll plain with speech.
形容词 adj.
  1. Flat, level. archaic,regional
    — The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.
  2. Full, complete in number or extent. obsolete
  3. Simple, unaltered.; Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
    — He was dressed simply in plain black clothes.
  4. Simple, unaltered.; Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
    — a plain pink polycotton skirt
  5. Simple, unaltered.; Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
    — They're just plain people like you or me.
  6. Simple, unaltered.; Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
    — Would you like a poppy bagel or a plain bagel?
  7. Simple, unaltered.; Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
  8. Obvious.; Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
    — In fact, by excommunication or persuasion, by impetuosity of driving or adroitness in leading, this Abbot, it is now becoming plain everywhere, is a man that generally remains master at last.
  9. Obvious.; Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
    — His answer was just plain nonsense.
  10. Open.; Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
    — Let me be plain with you: I don't like her.
  11. Open.; Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
    — Our troops beat an army in plain fight.
  12. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
    — Throughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face.
  13. Not a trump.
副词 adv.
  1. Simply. colloquial,not-comparable
    — It was just plain stupid.
  2. Plainly; distinctly. archaic,not-comparable
    — Tell me plain: do you love me or no?

词形变化

plainer comparative plainest superlative plaine alternative,obsolete plaine alternative,obsolete plains plural plains present,singular,third-person plaining participle,present plained participle,past plained past plains plural plein alternative plains present,singular,third-person plaining participle,present plained participle,past plained past plein alternative plainer comparative plainest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pleyn, playn, Middle French plain, plein, and Old French plain, from Latin plānus (“flat, even, level, plain”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.
词源 2
From Old French plain, from Latin plānum (“level ground, a plain”), neuter substantive from plānus (“level, even, flat”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.
词源 3
From Anglo-Norman plainer, pleiner, variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French pleindre, plaindre, from Latin plangere.
词源 4
From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Old French plein, from Latin plēnus (“full, filled, complete”). Ultimately from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Doublet of plene, plenary, and full.
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