首页英语词典easyeasy的意思

easy

英 ['iːzɪ] 美['izi]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词restful

反义词

adj. 容易的；舒适的
adv. 不费力地，从容地
vi. 停止划桨
vt. 发出停划命令

基本词汇高频词CET6考研TEM4CET4

词态变化

比较级: easier;最高级: easiest;名词: easiness;

英英释意

1. posing no difficulty; requiring little effort;: "an easy job"; "an easy problem"; "an easy victory"; "the house is easy to heat"; "satisfied with easy answers"; "took the easy way out of his dilemma"

2. not hurried or forced;: "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace"

3. free from worry or anxiety;: "knowing that I had done my best, my mind was easy"; "an easy good-natured manner"; "by the time the child faced the actual problem of reading she was familiar and at ease with all the elements words"

4. affording pleasure;: "easy good looks"

5. having little impact;: "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at the window"

6. in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich;: "they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards"; "easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the community"

7. not harsh; causing little distress;: "an easy penalty"

8. readily exploited or tricked;: "an easy mark"; "an easy victim"

9. marked by moderate steepness;: "an easy climb"; "a gentle slope"

10. performing adroitly and without effort;: "her easy grace"; "a facile hand"

11. not strict;: "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient rules"

12. affording comfort;: "soft light that was easy on the eyes"

13. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior;: "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"

14. less in demand and therefore readily obtainable;: "commodities are easy this quarter"

15. plentiful and therefore at low interest rates; easy to come by;: "easy money"

英文词源

easy: easy: [12] Easy comes via Anglo-Norman aise from Old French aisie, the past participle of aisier ‘put at ease’, which in turn was a derivative of aise. This noun (source of English ease [13]) originally meant ‘convenience’ rather than ‘comfort’. It came from *adjaces, the Vulgar Latin descendant of Latin adjacēns ‘nearby’ (source of English adjacent and related to adjective), which was the present participle of the verb adjacēre ‘lie near’.

The progression of senses is thus ‘nearby’, ‘handy’, ‘convenient’, and eventually ‘comfortable’. The subsequent development to ‘not difficult’, which took place in the 14th century, is purely English, although Breton took the parallel step of borrowing French aise, as aes, to mean ‘not difficult’.
=> adjacent, adjective
easy (adj.): c. 1200, "at ease, having ease, free from bodily discomfort and anxiety," from Old French aisie "comfortable, at ease, rich, well-off" (Modern French aisé), past participle of aisier "to put at ease," from aise (see ease (n.)). Sense of "not difficult, requiring no great labor or effort" is from late 13c.; of conditions, "offering comfort, pleasant," early 14c. Of persons, "lenient, kind, calm, gentle," late 14c. Meaning "readily yielding, not difficult of persuasion" is from 1610s. The concept of "not difficult" was expressed in Old English and early Middle English by eaþe (adv.), ieþe (adj.), apparently common West Germanic (compare German öde "empty, desolate," but of disputed origin.

Easy Street is from 1890. Easy money attested by 1889; to take it easy "relax" is from 1804 (be easy in same sense recorded from 1746); easy does it recorded by 1835. Easy rider (1912) was U.S. black slang for "sexually satisfying lover." The easy listening radio format is from 1961, defined by William Safire (in 1986) as, "the music of the 60's played in the 80's with the style of the 40's." Related: Easier; easiest.

同义词辨析

simple, easy

这两个形容词均含"简单的，轻易的"之意。

simple：普通用词，指不复杂、不难懂，从而容易被理解的事物。

easy：普通用词，指不需要花费太多精力的工作或事，在实际运用中常与simple换用。

考试真题

Such drastic change is not easy.

Readiness to take advantage of new opportunities will make it easier to create one's desired future.

Digital technology also makes it easier for people to co-ordinate their activities without resorting to hierarchy.

Creating the future you want is a lot easier if you are ready to exploit the opportunities that come your way.

Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship.

Easy-going people can also live a relatively long life.

There is no single easy quick solution to the problem.

Regulating the fashion industry in the United States won't be easy, Record says.

It's easier to find and acquire jamming equipment for some frequencies than it is for others.

Another group of helpless children who were simply rewarded for their success on easier problems did not improve their ability to solve hard math problems.

It’s a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.

Spending money is so fast and easy.

Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.

It's not easy for most people to actively seek conflict.

It'll make those tasks easier, and the task-doers will be happier.

It is a thing of no great difficulty, according to Plutarch, to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

I'm talking about simple, easy, everyday meals.

Criticizing someone's speech is said to be easier than coming up with a better one.

But earning money isn't quick or easy for most of us.

Ifyou can speak the language, it’s easier to get to know thecountry and its people.

Fire was one of the earliest major technological advances for humankind, providing heat, protection, and cooked food (which is much easier to cat and digest).

As well as the background checks carried out by platform owners, online reviews and ratings are usually posted by both parties to each transaction, which makes it easy to spot bad drivers, bathrobe-thieves and surfboard-wreckers

But technology has reduced transaction costs, making sharing assets cheaper and easier than ever—and therefore possible on a much larger scale.

And it is not just individuals: the web makes it easier for companies to rent out spare offices and idle machines, too

These make alcohol less easy to get and reduce the number of psychological cues to drink.

Easy access leads to customers' over-consumption

It's not an easy calculation to make, but one that makes sense for all patients.

Many people's homes now have more powerful, and more flexible, devices than their offices do; consumer gadgets and online services are smarter and easier to use than most companies'ystems

Things get stolen when it is easy to steal them because they are left lying around unwatched.

But that is also its strength: it's easy for readers to understand, and to do the arithmetic for their own schools if they'd like

It is easy to accept that genes control physical characteristics such as sex, race and eye color.

Surveys show that the number of worried Americans has been steadily growing over the years as the computer becomes increasingly efficient, easier to operate, and less costly to purchase and maintain.

It is easy to study the amounts and kinds of food that people consume

If you can accept that people from other cultures act according to their values, not yours, getting along with them will be much easier.

Cross-country skiing isn't as easy as some people think.

It is easy for that person to give you the run-around.

"It is a thing of no great difficulty," according to Plutarch," to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome."

A business professor says that a future city should have easy access to international transportation.

Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and photographed more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streets—an approach that makes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship.

It's a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.

It's not always easy to tell if someone is using drugs.

It's that the English grammar is really quite easy.

Juices are quick and easy to prepare, you can take the frozen fruit out the night before and have it ready the next morning.

One vision of the perfect city of the future: a place that offers easy access to air travel.

Or like speeding, it's very easy to put speed cameras in certain places.

Quick and easy travel between all parts of the country was now possible.

The panels are also designed so that they can be installed directly on top of existing roadways, making them relatively cheap and easy to install.

To match the growing demand, services are springing up to make it easier to publish research products online and enable other researchers to discover and cite them.

A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.

Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there're no quick or easy answers.

The answer is that no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs.

Saying that there're no easy answers sounds wise, but it's actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act.

It is not easy to curb the rising medical costs in America.

Contrary to some stereotypes, most adolescents believe they must be tolerant of differences among individuals ( ' , though they do not always find this easy in the cliquish ( ' , 拉帮结派的) environment of high school).

But finding hard evidence to support the thesis is not so easy.

All the plans would have to provide standard benefit packages that would be easy to compare.

Upon reflection, however, it is equally easy to feel like you have seen it all before.

It will be easier to operate and maintain.

It is still easy to be dazzled by the display of drones ( ' , 无人机 ), 3D printers, virtual reality goggles ( ' , 眼镜 ) and more smart devices than you could ever hope to catalog.

They can afford to choose easier majors in order to enjoy themselves.

It is quite easy, with all that choice, to change a light bulb.

It is easy to change a light bulb, sure, but it is harder to change the bulb and its fixture.

In Paying for the Party, Hamilton describes what she calls the party pathway, which eases many students through college, helped along by various clubs that send students into the party scene and a host of easier majors.

Despite clear signs of global warming it is not easy for most people to believe climate change will affect their own lives.

Changing a light bulb is easier than changing the fixture housing it.

It is also easier for a dissatisfied company to give its account to another agency than it would be to fire their own advertising staff.

It is not as easy to comprehend.

As American research universities begin to resemble profit centers and entertainment complexes, it's easy to lose sight of their primary mission; to produce and spread knowledge

In schools, teachers and pupils alike often assume that if a concept has been easy to learn, then the lesson has been successful.

Today's world offers more opportunity than ever to follow the advice of the Walker Brothers and make it easy on ourselves

It should be easy enough so as not to frustrate students.

It IS a false assumption that lessons should be made easier to learn.

Its impact is not easy to predict.

What has made it easier to turn some rain forests into farmland?

Those who keep saving will live an easy life in the end.

Many universities, including large schools like the University of Texas, make it easy for these AP students to graduate faster.

Long-term storage of CO2 is no easy job because of

Changes at the high-school level are also helping to make it easier for many students to earn their undergraduate degrees in less time.

Those that wish to tackle tradition and make American campus more cost-conscious may find it easier to take Trachtenberg's advice: open campuses year-round

The full details are complicated - the text alone runs to 385 pages– and trying to summarise it is no easy task.

There is no easy way to measure racism directly; instead psychologists assess what is known as "implicit bias", using a computer-based test that measures how quickly people associate positive and negative words—such as "love" or "evil"—with photos of black or white faces.

But there's no easy way to see what those figures mean in real life

If you can accept that people from other cultures act according to their values, not yours, getting along with them will be much easier.

It won't be easy for Mark to win the election.

"Presumably it's because it's simple and easy to write a prescription and consider a patient case closed rather than investigate further," Polman says.

A recent study graded more than 600 internet retailers on how easy it was for consumers to shop, buy, and pay.

All the wise heads agree: there're no quick or easy answers.

Contrary to some stereotypes, most adolescents believe they must be tolerant of differences among individuals though they do not always find this easy in the cliquish (拉帮结派的) environment of high school.

In fact, lower-tier school alumni networks are arguably stronger, because fellow alumni recognize that you didn't necessarily have an easy path to follow.

In general, your attitudes will be internally consistent only when the behavior is easy, and when those around you hold similar beliefs.

It is quite easy for one to take in the recommended amount of protein.

It is still easy to be dazzled by the display of drones, 3D printers, virtual reality goggles and more "smart" devices than you could ever hope to catalog.

It's easy to blame technology for being so distracting, but distraction is nothing new.

It's not easy, but having only public universities also might not be the best solution.

Just like medical researchers use rats to test ideas for human medical treatments, botanists use plants that are relatively easy to grow in a lab or greenhouse setting to test their ideas for related species.

king penguins are the second-largest type of penguin and only breed on specific isolated islands in the Southern Ocean where there is no ice cover and easy access to the sea.

Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

So if ifs so easy to get your protein in food, why add more in the form of powders, snack bars or a boost at your local juice bar?

This is not an easy task.

Upon reflection, however, it is equally easy to feel like you have seen it all before.

Wadhams says there is no easy technological fix to climate change.

According to Johnsen, avoiding absorption is actually easy.

And if a predator can move on to another species that is easier to find when a prey species becomes rare, the switch allows the original prey to recover.

And it wasn't easy for me to register for international trade.

As busy people, we are always looking for ways to save time and make our lives easier.

At long last, in a comfortable home, with a generous pension, he should learn to take things easy.

Berlin has been the easiest while the most difficult was the Czech town of Pilsen.

But the traffic was not easy.

But with these tips, your first man-on-the-street interview experience can be easy.

Computers are much easier to operate.

Credibility is hard to earn but easy to lose, and the problem is only going to get harder from here on out.

Dismissing small talk as unimportant is easy, but we can't forget that deep relationships wouldn't.

Generally, it contains no more than 75, 000 entries, making it easy to carry to class and efficient to use.

He advised him to slow down and take things easy.

He found its title easy to understand.

If you read frequently, you'll likely have an easier time with remembering what you're readingand what you've read.

If you're the person who is in the wrong, just admit it! This is the easiest and best way to avoid an argument.

In fact, the key to easy morning wake-up lies in resting your body clock.

In the music class that was part of his school's standard curriculum, he was playing idly on the piano and found it easy to pick out tunes.

It's not easy to carry around, especially when boxed inside a massive skull.

It is easy to prepare a list of modern stories having to do with love.

It is easy to recognize a person's class.

It is not an easy job.

It would have been so much easier if a train or a subway line went through here.

It's easier than we think to get what we want.

It's much easier to excuse yourself to get back to your work than if you try to get someone out of your space even after explaining how busy you are.

Making things worse are state laws that make it too easy to opt out of what are supposed to be required vaccines for all children entering kindergarten.

Not everybody can do that — it takes years of experience, but a printer makes it easy.

One of the easiest things in the world is to become a fault-finder.

People settle in these places because they are easy to get to and naturally suited to communications and trade.

Practice more in order to make small talk easier.

Relived, I sat back in an easy chair and fell asleep.

Restarting antitrust for the information age will not be easy but if govemments don't wants a data oconomy by a few giants, they must act soon.

Running is cheap, easy and it's always energetic.

Science has made the study of history easy.

She skipped over those easy parts while reading.

Smartphones make it easier and more convenient to check reality, watch video clips, read weibo.

Solving the safety problem well enough to move forward in AI seems to be possible but not easy.

Take it easy for the rest of the day, and stay in the shade.

Talking to someone you don't know is not the easiest thing to do! some experts say with more practice, small talk does get easier.

That, he notes, should make a block of stone "a lot easier to roll than a square".

The boss of the company is trying to create an easy atmosphere where his employees enioy their work.

The bus driver never regained consciousness and died at easy surrey hospital.

The easiest is to steam it.

The easiest way to accomplish this is to make sure you conduct yourself as a good neighbor should.

The government has already permitted the company to use special materials to make it easier for the vehicle to fly.

The impact/impacts of walking upright makes it easy to find food or guard against enemies.

The solution is obvious though perhaps not easy to apply: always handle the most difficult job first.

This is where we usually think it's easier to just give up.

To make it easier to get in touch with us, you'd better keep this card at hand.

To make the work easier, workers may have lubricated the paths either with wet clay or with the fat from cattle.

Well-paid jobs are not easy to find.

While finding information is easier than ever, at the same time, researching has become more complex.

With no gravity, it's just as easy to pedal violently.

Without much tissue to scatter light, it is easier to be see-through.

While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.

Perhaps willfully , it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

The development of “cloud computing,” meanwhile, has made that exploration so much the easier.

Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful,managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier.

The challenge of coping with automation underlines the need for the U. to revive its fading business dynamism: Starting new companies must be made easier.

At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.

Divorce is legal and easy to obtain, but not common.

In the Internet age, it is particularly easy to see the resentment that has always been hidden within American society.

Including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.

India has just announced it will "eliminate all single-use plastic in the country by 2022". There are also incentive-based ways of making better environmental choices easier, such as ensuring recycling is at least as easy as trash disposal.

None of these will be easy but you can start even if others refuse to.

Sometimes it is easy to feel bad because you are going through tough times.

Still, while every parent would like to be patient, this is no easy task.

The prevention of this type of fraud is no easy task, and a new field of computer science is developing to cope with security issues.

with so much focus on children's use of screens, it's easy for parents to forget about their own screen use.

词组搭配

be easier said than done

be more easily talked about than put into practice

说时容易做时难

going on an economy drive is easier said than done.
开展节约运动说起来容易做起来难。

(as) easy as pie

going on an economy drive is easier said than done.
开展节约运动说起来容易做起来难。

easy come, easy go

used especially in spoken English to indicate that a relationship or possession acquired without effort or difficulty may be abandoned or lost casually and without regret

［尤在口语中］来得容易去得快

easy does it

used especially in spoken English to advise someone to approach a task carefully and slowly

［尤在口语中］小心行事；从容图之；不着急，不着忙

easy on the eye (或 ear)

(informal)pleasant to look at (or listen to)

(非正式)好看（或听）的，悦目（或耳）的

go (或 be) easy on someone

(informal)refrain from being harsh with or critical of someone

(非正式)温和地对待某人，宽容地对待某人

go easy on something

(informal)be sparing or cautious in one's use or consumption of something

(非正式)有节制地使用（或消耗）

go easy on fatty foods.
少吃高脂肪食品。

have it easy

(informal)be free from difficulties; be fortunate

(非正式)容易，轻易；幸运

I'm easy

(informal)said by someone when offered a choice to indicate that they have no particular preference

(非正式)我随便（表示没有特别喜好或要求）

of easy virtue

(dated or humorous)(of a woman) sexually promiscuous

(旧或幽默)（女人）放荡的，水性杨花的，滥交的

sleep (或 rest) easy

go to sleep without (or be untroubled by) worries

安然入睡；放心，高枕无忧

this insurance policy will let you rest easy.
这份保险单会让你高枕无忧。

stand easy!

(Military)used to instruct soldiers standing at ease that they may relax their attitude further

(军)休息！（命令稍息状态的士兵进一步放松姿态的口令）

take the easy way out

extricate oneself from a difficult situation by choosing the simplest rather than the most honourable course of action

（选择最简单而非最体面的方式）使自己摆脱困境

take it easy

proceed calmly and in a relaxed manner

从容不迫，不慌不忙

实用场景例句

an easy exam/job: 容易的考试 / 工作

He didn't make it easy for me to leave.: 他并没有轻易让我离开。

Their house isn't the easiest place to get to.: 他们的房子可不容易到。

vegetables that are easy to grow: 容易种植的蔬菜

Several schools are within easy reach (= not far away) .: 几所学校都在附近不远处。

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。

It's easy for you to tell me to keep calm, but you're not in my position.: 你让我保持冷静当然容易，那是你没到我这份上。

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。

I don't feel easy about letting the kids go out alone.: 让这些孩子单独出去我不放心。

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。

He had a very easy manner.: 他很容易相与。

‘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。”

The shower is easy to install...: 这种淋浴器安装起来很简单。

It's easy to get a seat at the best shows in town...: 很容易搞到城里顶级演出的票。

She is laughing and joking and making easy conversation with people she has never met before...: 她谈笑风生，和那些素未谋面的人毫不拘束地聊着。

He was an easy person to talk to.: 和他谈话很轻松。

She has not had an easy life.: 她一直没有过上过安逸的生活。

That's easy for you to say...: 你说起来轻松。

It was all too easy to believe it.: 这太容易令人相信了。

The music sounds like an advert—easy on the ear but bland and forgettable...: 这音乐听起来像是广告——悦耳但是毫无特点，听过就忘。

The layout should be clear and easy on the eye.: 版式应该清晰悦目。

Tourists have become easy prey...: 游客成了易遭袭击的目标。

The World Bank, with its poor environmental record, is an easy target for blame.: 世界银行由于在环境保护方面表现不佳而常常遭受诟病。

My attitude to money is slightly easy come, easy go.: 我对金钱并不太在乎。

Go easy on the alcohol.: 少喝点酒。

'Go easy on him,' Sam repeated, opening the door...: “对他宽容点，”萨姆开门的时候重复道。

Be a little easier on yourself and enjoy yourself more...: 对自己别太苛刻，让自己更快乐些。

Avoiding mosquito bites is easier said than done.: 防蚊叮咬好说难做。

It is best to take things easy for a week or two.: 最好放松一两周。