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Definition of easy in English: easyadjectiveeasiest, easier ˈiːziˈizi 1Achieved without great effort; presenting few difficulties. 容易的；不费力的 an easy way of retrieving information 一种检索信息的简易方法。 Example sentencesExamples - With so many people to choose from, booking several dates in a short amount of time is easy.
- The upper half of the deck is placed within easy reach of all players.
- While finding a partner or date is hard, maintaining the relationship should be easy.
- The real difficulty is that it's very easy for someone to mess up these predictions.
- The pages will be ordered by category to allow easy access by the user.
- We hear a lot about how it has become too easy to get into university these days.
- But it is surprisingly easy to forget what you spend in a day.
- Usually, I find it fairly easy to find a representative sample of a photographer's work.
- It is easy to tell who is really serious about the profession.
- He said it was easy for politicians to make spending promises but more difficult to find the money.
- However, working in the film industry is no easy task, confesses Rocky.
- Reivin was dodging using very little effort, as if this was all far too easy for him.
- It will not be easy for Lin to achieve his aim, but setbacks just seem to spur him on.
- It's easy to see why the candidates are so eager talk about anything other than marriage.
- I encountered no glitches in my testing, and found it fairly easy to use.
- Capturing and holding the attention of a classroom for an entire lecture period is no easy task.
- That seems to be the easy way out - and just what many of the far right would like to see happen.
- We found this unit relatively easy to use.
- Butterflies are attracted to brightly colored, sweet-smelling flowers that allow them easy access.
- The recovery environment will boot and present a menu system that is fairly easy to navigate.
Synonyms uncomplicated, not difficult, undemanding, unexacting, unchallenging, effortless, painless, trouble-free, facile, simple, straightforward, elementary, idiot-proof, plain sailing informal easy-peasy, easy as pie, as easy as falling off a log, as easy as ABC, a piece of cake, child's play, kids' stuff, a cinch, no sweat, a doddle, a breeze, a pushover, money for old rope, money for jam chiefly US easy-breezy North American informal duck soup, a snap Australian/New Zealand informal a bludge South African informal a piece of old tackle British vulgar slang a piece of piss dated a snip 2(of a period of time or way of life) free from worries or problems. （时期或生活方式）安逸的，舒适的 promises of an easy life in the New World 新大陆舒适生活的前景。 Example sentencesExamples - He swears life was easy until he headed out into the world to make it by just being himself.
- Mr Heavens said it had not been an easy year from that point of view.
- These are not easy days, for sitting shiva is emotionally and physically draining.
- Fourteen is not an easy age and getting your children into the right frame of mind for these tests can be difficult.
- Now that competition has been introduced into the tertiary system, the easy days are over.
- It has not been an easy year and can only be described as a ‘roller coaster’ of emotion.
- Monaco is a special race on the Formula One calendar and Schumacher does not expect an easy weekend ahead.
- It hasn't been an easy day for the governors, so great to see you here.
- The house in the suburbs, the sense of life being easy and calm, it was a little dull but fulfilling.
- The second day we had an easy day to let us get accustomed to the eight hour time difference.
- And things aren't always easy for famous people like my dad.
- Bristol is an easy weekend trip from Scotland, and city-centre hotels at the right price do not come much better than this one.
- It won't be an easy summer for Ridsdale, but unlike the next manager, he can be sure he'll be there this time next year.
- Law is not expecting an easy season, though, despite Lancashire's drop in status.
- In many ways, life is too easy for those American developers.
- Life has not always been easy for the 41-year-old, who was born in Bolton but grew up in Edinburgh.
- Those first few years weren't easy, but I kept the club up in difficult circumstances.
- He looked set for an easy season after early domination, but a slump in his form mid-season made a race of it.
- We found ourselves standing on a threshold one easy summer evening, looking at the stars.
- The rally was a new event for everyone and it's not been an easy weekend.
Synonyms calm, tranquil, serene, quiet, peaceful, trouble-free, untroubled, undisturbed, unworried, contented, relaxed, comfortable, secure, safe informal cushy - 2.1 (of a person) lacking anxiety or awkwardness; relaxed.
（人）从容的，自如的；自在的，不拘束的 her easy and agreeable manner 他那从容的、令人愉快的举止。 he never felt easy with her Example sentencesExamples - There are kids riding horses and dogs chasing sticks yet we're all easy like Sunday morning.
- He is so easy with it that like a general who has always won battles, he has won loud applause from the audience after each show.
- I'm easy, either way, just so long as we don't have to go back and live in Wales again.
Synonyms natural, casual, informal, unceremonious, unreserved, uninhibited, unconstrained, unforced, unaffected, free and easy, easy-going, familiar, amiable, affable, genial, congenial, agreeable, good-humoured carefree, nonchalant, unconcerned, composed, insouciant, urbane, suave informal laid-back, unflappable, together
3(of an object of attack or criticism) having no defence; vulnerable. （攻击或批评对象）无防备的；易受攻击的；易受抨击的 as a taxi driver he was an easy target 作为一个出租车司机，他很容易受到攻击并成为攻击的目标。 Example sentencesExamples - Police had also warned candidates not to extend election meetings late into the night as it would make them easy targets for assassins.
- I look like easy pickings for the local bullies, but I'm not.
- Thanks to harassed arts writers looking for easy targets, mime traditionally gets a bit of a kicking at the festival.
- Mr Weston, a lifelong biker, said: " Bikers are easy pickings.
- I know as I've done it in other big games on the world stage, but referees always have been, and always will be, easy targets.
- It is thought that the attacker preyed on him because he thought he was an easy target.
- So often the local authorities are an easy target for criticism, sometimes unfair and unjustified.
- He's an easy target and they all laid into him with predictable criticism for being out of touch and old fashioned.
- Pedigree dogs worth hundreds of pounds are being seen as an easy target by criminals who sell them on at bargain prices to new owners.
- Orkney has become a possible easy target for smugglers because of the lack of permanent Customs cover in the islands
- Everyone who has played them has regarded them as an easy target.
- During WWII, neon was ordered off, for fear it would make easy bombing targets.
- It is this false sense of security that makes them such easy targets.
- You searched for premises which were comparatively easy targets.
- They concluded that the generators would be an easy target for a terrorist attack of enormous consequence.
- Being slow does make them easy targets and one RAAF aircraft has come under attack in Baghdad.
- Part of the reason is that the lunch programs are an easy target for political special interests.
- It is an easy point of criticism Larry, but the problem with family violence is the hidden nature of it.
- His step mum believes his condition could make him an easy target.
- The stretch of 62 kilometers of the outer ring road has been a haunt for criminals who find easy targets.
Synonyms vulnerable, susceptible, exploitable, defenceless, naive, gullible, trusting, credulous, impressionable - 3.1derogatory, informal (of a woman) very receptive to sexual advances.
her reputation at school for being easy 她上学时的水性杨花的坏名声。 Example sentencesExamples - They thought she was easy, that they could buy her a drink and then get into her pants at the end of the night.
- Just ‘cause I'm pregnant doesn't mean I'm easy!’
- I think I'm funny, smart, attractive, vivacious; does that mean guys automatically think I'm easy?
- Yet she wasn't easy like some of the girls hanging out around Soho at that time.
- He must think I'm such a slut, that I'm easy white trash.
- Nobody is going to think you're easy, in fact they will probably think you are sensible and cautious.
- I can't believe how harsh some people are about me trying to get it on with Daniel just because I'd had a little too much to drink doesn't mean that I'm easy.
Synonyms promiscuous, sexually indiscriminate, free with one's favours, of easy virtue, unchaste, loose, wanton, abandoned, licentious, dissolute, dissipated, debauched
adverbeasiest, easier ˈiːziˈizi US archaic, informal Without difficulty or effort. 〈非正式，主古或美〉容易地，轻松地，不费力地 we all scared real easy in those days 在那些日子里我们都非常容易受到惊吓。 Example sentencesExamples - He found the looking glass easy enough, though why it was intact he couldn't say.
- We were playing basketball just dribbling it easy along the graffiti lot.
- It was the first time she ever gave me a real compliment, and I was surprised how easy it came to her lips.
exclamationˈiːziˈizi Be careful. 小心，当心 easy, girl—you'll knock me over! 小心，小姑娘-你会把我撞倒的！
PhrasesBe 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。 Example sentencesExamples - Because inactivity weakens the back muscles, pain sufferers should stay active, but it is sometimes easier said than done.
- Indeed, to cultivate altruism is easier said than done and to do away with time-honoured beliefs is almost hopeless.
- The problem is that growing protein crystals is a lot easier said than done - at least on terra firma.
- Though I know that is easier said than done, I can support that goal as an ideal.
- I know, it's easier said than done, but it is something to aim for.
- This is often easier said than done because it takes practice and commitment.
- Putting quality on to the nation's screens (and into the nation's radio speakers) is easier said than done.
- The etiquette rule is to use the furthest outside one as the different courses are served, but that is easier said than done.
- At the other end the Westport forwards will have to step up to the plate in a big way but that's easier said than done against the Nallens and company.
- Forty years' experience has shown this is easier said than done, but surely it's possible.
Used especially in spoken English to indicate that a relationship or possession acquired without effort may be abandoned or lost without regret. 尤用于口语中来得容易去得快 Example sentencesExamples - They've won fame rather than worked for it, and they've treated it pretty much like Viv Nicholson handled her pools win - easy come, easy go.
- They nick them too, but I think easy come, easy go.
- For him, allegations are easy come, easy go.
- A job, a relationship, my savings account: It was easy come, easy go.
Used to advise someone to approach a task carefully and slowly. 尤用于口语中小心行事；从容图之；不着急，不着忙 with father's wine in the back I mustn't drive too fast, so easy does it Example sentencesExamples - Whether your sending out a quick ‘hello’ or ‘meet us here later’, it's easy does it all the way.
- ‘Whoa, easy does it,’ stated the man Jasper had so uncharacteristically bashed into.
- So easy does it with the imagery from now on, I promise.
- Carter shushed her, ‘Hey, easy does it there, Laura.’
- Easy, easy does it, not too much, just a little bit more.
informal Pleasant to look at (or listen to) 〈非正式〉好看（或好听）的，悦目（或悦耳）的 a charming village that is easy on the eye Example sentencesExamples - We wanted people who are easy on the eye, who are really good actors, who are still in their 20s and who were available.
- The paintings are easy on the eye and very pleasant but we think that the artist is stopping short of something quite extraordinary.
- Thankfully, there was a diving team on hand to make sure none of us drowned - and they were all pretty easy on the eye.
- My two nearest neighbours are rather nice chaps who also happen to be exceptionally easy on the eye.
- Neighbours of two new futuristic ‘solar dwellings’ have been warned that the environmentally-friendly properties may not be so easy on the eye.
- Manicured lawns, weeded borders and pruned shrubs may be easy on the eye, but they're not necessarily great for encouraging wildlife.
- Invested with 16 years of research, the trainers are not only easy on the eye but they're also alleged to help you exercise more efficiently.
- The teenage appeal doubtless springs from the fact that all of the boys are pretty easy on the eye, but that's as far as the similarities go.
- Clean lines punctuated with specimen plants are ideal not only because they are easy on the eye, but they also have the practical benefit of aiding security.
- Both the cut scenes and in-game animation are quite smooth and generally pretty easy on the eye.
Synonyms good-looking, attractive, nice-looking, handsome, lovely, beautiful, pretty, as pretty as a picture, stunning, striking, arresting, prepossessing, winning, fetching, captivating, bewitching, beguiling, engaging, charming, charismatic, enchanting, appealing, delightful, irresistible
1informal 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 him, Rory, he's only little Example sentencesExamples - I was easy on him the week before the race and he was a good bit off full fitness.
- For what it's worth, I don't think Jay has gone easy on Arnold in the monologues but he has certainly left himself wide open to the charge.
- Good leadership isn't about pandering to your troops and going easy on them - it's about training them to standard so they come alive from combat.
- I think the press wants a good story, and they don't sit and think about who we're going to be easy on, who we're going to be hard on.
- ‘Don't you play games with me, now tell me and we'll go easy on you… well easier,’ Toby growled.
- Authorities will most likely resist any deal which may create a perception that they've gone easy on a person convicted for drug trafficking.
- The students were polite and went easy on the coach who was sacked earlier this season.
- She's still nice and went easy on all the amateur performers.
- Jack was livid but went easy on him as Frank bursts into tears quite readily now after the rough handling he got on the culture review.
- I don't know why I went easy on them in my previous posts, as I wanted to share all the things they do poorly when I posted recaps.
2informal Be sparing in one's use or consumption of. 〈非正式〉有节制地使用（或消耗） 少吃高脂肪食品。 Example sentencesExamples - In fact, the traditional English favorite, Yorkshire Pudding, was the way that farmers wives filled the family up on a wad of bread so that they went easy on the expensive meat.
- Counterintuitive though this may seem, many individuals get good control over cholesterol by going easy on their consumption of bread, potatoes, rice and pasta.
- Club heroes watch what they eat, go easy on the drink and refrain from cigarettes.
- Snuggle if you can, and go easy on the drink - don't give him an excuse to say it was a mistake.
- Considering I was supposed to be going easy on the carbs this week, this is bad.
- Also, go easy on how much protein you eat, since large amounts can block calcium absorption.
informal Have no difficulties; be fortunate. 〈非正式〉没有困难，很容易；很幸运 they have had it easy for too long and have become complacent Example sentencesExamples - The Bay Area is a fortunate place with plentiful resources so we kind of have it easy.
- Despite the expected traffic jams, potential electrical brown-outs and terrorist threats, modern Olympians and spectators have it easy, compared to their ancient counterparts.
- The girls who walked the ramp on Monday had to answer questions about every thing from history, philosophy to music and clearly they did not have it easy.
- Blige, who grew up in the projects, has never had it easy, and the tough times remain embedded in her lyrics.
- By comparison with my days of school report writing (all had to be written by hand, in permanent ink), teachers of today have it easy.
- They didn't have it easy because I am quite an impatient person when it comes to training, I just want to do as much as I can.
- But for the life of me, I can't see how anybody in their right mind could possibly think she's had it easy.
- A sense of failure is a horrible feeling, especially to someone like me who's always had it easy, and never really failed a subject at school.
- My guess is that throughout the early to mid 1990s Labour had it easy.
- There is no single country that is having it easy.
informal Said by someone when offered a choice to indicate that they have no particular preference. 〈非正式〉我随便（表示自己没有特别的喜好） Example sentencesExamples - If you don't want it to work, that's ok, I'm easy, I don't mind.
- There are a lot of good ways to do so - I'm easy like that.
- I enjoy producing things people like and can play in… I get a kick out of it and as long as I can break even, I'm easy.
dated (of a woman) very receptive to sexual advances. critics who believed that as a painter she must be a woman of easy virtue Example sentencesExamples - Piercings were sometimes worn by women, but only those of easy virtue.
- Beautiful and well-bred, she suffered the hostile treatment of critics who believed that as a painter she must be a woman of easy virtue.
- ‘Most of the money was spent on booze and women of easy virtue - whores in other words,’ he told me in an interview.
- He has been brought up by a lady of easy virtue in the bazaar.
- He is promptly thrown into the seamy world of Montreal's nightlife - its clubs, its cabarets, its women of easy virtue.
- She speaks of a woman of easy virtue and outstanding beauty who, when painters went to her to take her portrait, ‘showed as much of her person as she could with propriety’.
- In this case a lady reputed to be of easy virtue and a girlfriend of one of the local policemen, had made statements intimidating the men for trial.
- They looked gorgeous and portrayed, - and I hope they will not take this amiss - ladies of easy virtue decoratively and to the life.
- In Shanghai Express, probably her finest film, she was a woman of easy virtue, mouthing the famous line.
- There is a woman of easy virtue, also gleefully played by Jane Nash, who tries to entrap Bob and the usual subplot of the squire's nephew trying to anticipate his inheritance.
Synonyms promiscuous, sexually indiscriminate, free with one's favours, of easy virtue, unchaste, loose, wanton, abandoned, licentious, dissolute, dissipated, debauched
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。 Example sentencesExamples - Regardless of what the polls might indicate, citizens are no longer resting easy in the belief that their government can be trusted to protect their interests.
- That's not my fight, and I'll sleep easy tonight knowing that I've answered the call of duty with an extra topping of usefulness.
- They can sleep easy at night, burying thoughts that intruders may compromise their privacy.
- Now you can sleep easy, safe in the knowledge that someone in a position of power is promoting your agenda.
- How this person can sleep easy at night is beyond me.
- The Home Secretary can rest easy in his bed tonight.
- If you were worried that the band had lost their touch, that they just weren't capable of making a good album, you can rest easy.
- But on the basis of present evidence we can rest easy.
- Can we sleep easy at nights knowing that people are being paid sweatshop wages for our benefit?
- A Ladbrokes spokesman said: ‘It looks like all the bookies will be sleeping easy in their beds on Christmas morning.’
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）
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 she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message Example sentencesExamples - To take the easy way out, one might just chalk both up to blatant stupidity, but there are always other reasons as well.
- In most science exhibitions, there are student groups that take the easy way out and opt for a project that can be put together using easily available material.
- We should ensure that the government does that work, rather than taking the easy way out and sacrificing justice to expediency.
- As the economy plods along, many of us are choosing to take the easy way out.
- He chose to take the easy way out and slam the council.
- There is a sense of entitlement that I think has caused many to take the easy way out.
- It is just not true, as his critics assert, that he always took the easy way out.
- Too often, the scripts choose to take the easy way out.
- As finance minister, Ng never took the easy way out.
- I took the easy way out and did the very unsporting thing of hiding my assigned fabric inside the pockets as a lining.
1Proceed in a calm and relaxed manner. 从容不迫，不慌不忙 Example sentencesExamples - How can I take it easy when Mark is off sneaking around with God knows who?
- He said just, you know, be calm, take it easy.
- The little question mark at the end was left in the air to imply that we are relaxed about this, so take it easy, take it easy.
- It forces me to calm down, take it easy, and take every shot at a time, and forget the bad ones, which of course there are many.
- Larry, I think everyone should just kind of relax, take it easy.
- ‘Hey wow, calm down, take it easy girl,’ I said holding my hands up in self-defence.
- You need to be comfortable and relaxed, so take it easy.
- ‘Dude, take it easy, I was just messing around,’ Ryan wiped a little blood from his nose.
- At one point in my career, I started to realise that I should take it easy, I should calm down.
- Well, in any case, you've got another few weeks around him, so I say take it easy.
Synonyms relax, unwind, loosen up, ease off, ease up, let up, slow down, de-stress, unbend, rest, repose, put one's feet up, take time off, take time out, slack off, be at leisure, take one's leisure, take one's ease, laze, luxuriate, do nothing, sit back, lounge, loll, slump, flop, idle, loaf, enjoy oneself, amuse oneself, play, entertain oneself 2Make little effort; rest. 放松，休息 Example sentencesExamples - Work was pretty busy this past week and then Thursday I got sick and have been mostly taking it easy around the house since then.
- The application of aspirin and bed rest pulled him through it by midday today and he took it easy for the rest of the day, getting better by the hour.
- I rose at 8:30 and am here loafing around taking it easy with my cup of tea and reading the newspaper.
- Clearly both players preferred to take it easy and rest for their semi-finals.
- I've been relaxing around Madrid, taking it easy, enjoying the lie-ins and the food, not to mention the one or two drinks at night.
- Having done all the hard work, the time before kick-off on Saturday is a case of taking it easy, eating, resting and sleeping.
- He was clearly still taking it easy and trying to relax.
- I decided to just relax and I took it easy all weekend long.
- Basically, it's been a day and a half of taking it easy and ambling around in the heat.
- Since Christmas Day - just two days ago - I've been ‘chilling out’, relaxing and taking it easy.
Synonyms relax, unwind, loosen up, ease off, ease up, let up, slow down, de-stress, unbend, rest, repose, put one's feet up, take time off, take time out, slack off, be at leisure, take one's leisure, take one's ease, laze, luxuriate, do nothing, sit back, lounge, loll, slump, flop, idle, loaf, enjoy oneself, amuse oneself, play, entertain oneself
Derivativesnoun ˈiːzɪnəs Now, I want the easiness of poetry, the brevity of the poem. Example sentencesExamples - The website, which started in the US, lets pupils and parents mark teachers out of five on helpfulness, popularity, lesson clarity and easiness of lessons.
- The site allows students to grade their teachers based on easiness, helpfulness and clarity, providing an overall quality rating out of five.
- Their easiness with each other was evident, as they danced together, slapped each other on the back and casually bantered throughout the show.
- That means staying away from rural areas wherever possible, not using countryside footpaths and generally being aware of the easiness of spreading this terrible infection.
OriginMiddle English (also in the sense 'comfortable, tranquil'): from Old French aisie, past participle of aisier 'put at ease, facilitate' (see ease). Rhymesbreezy, cheesy, easy-peasy, Kesey, Parcheesi, queasy, sleazy, wheezy, Zambezi Definition of easy in US English: easyadjectiveˈēzēˈizi 1Achieved without great effort; presenting few difficulties. 容易的；不费力的 an easy way of retrieving information 一种检索信息的简易方法。 Example sentencesExamples - Usually, I find it fairly easy to find a representative sample of a photographer's work.
- The pages will be ordered by category to allow easy access by the user.
- It's easy to see why the candidates are so eager talk about anything other than marriage.
- The real difficulty is that it's very easy for someone to mess up these predictions.
- While finding a partner or date is hard, maintaining the relationship should be easy.
- The recovery environment will boot and present a menu system that is fairly easy to navigate.
- Reivin was dodging using very little effort, as if this was all far too easy for him.
- The upper half of the deck is placed within easy reach of all players.
- He said it was easy for politicians to make spending promises but more difficult to find the money.
- That seems to be the easy way out - and just what many of the far right would like to see happen.
- We hear a lot about how it has become too easy to get into university these days.
- It is easy to tell who is really serious about the profession.
- We found this unit relatively easy to use.
- But it is surprisingly easy to forget what you spend in a day.
- I encountered no glitches in my testing, and found it fairly easy to use.
- Capturing and holding the attention of a classroom for an entire lecture period is no easy task.
- However, working in the film industry is no easy task, confesses Rocky.
- With so many people to choose from, booking several dates in a short amount of time is easy.
- It will not be easy for Lin to achieve his aim, but setbacks just seem to spur him on.
- Butterflies are attracted to brightly colored, sweet-smelling flowers that allow them easy access.
Synonyms uncomplicated, not difficult, undemanding, unexacting, unchallenging, effortless, painless, trouble-free, facile, simple, straightforward, elementary, idiot-proof, plain sailing 2(of a period of time or way of life) free from worries or problems. （时期或生活方式）安逸的，舒适的 promises of an easy life in the New World 新大陆舒适生活的前景。 Example sentencesExamples - The house in the suburbs, the sense of life being easy and calm, it was a little dull but fulfilling.
- Now that competition has been introduced into the tertiary system, the easy days are over.
- Those first few years weren't easy, but I kept the club up in difficult circumstances.
- Life has not always been easy for the 41-year-old, who was born in Bolton but grew up in Edinburgh.
- Fourteen is not an easy age and getting your children into the right frame of mind for these tests can be difficult.
- It has not been an easy year and can only be described as a ‘roller coaster’ of emotion.
- He swears life was easy until he headed out into the world to make it by just being himself.
- The rally was a new event for everyone and it's not been an easy weekend.
- We found ourselves standing on a threshold one easy summer evening, looking at the stars.
- The second day we had an easy day to let us get accustomed to the eight hour time difference.
- Monaco is a special race on the Formula One calendar and Schumacher does not expect an easy weekend ahead.
- Bristol is an easy weekend trip from Scotland, and city-centre hotels at the right price do not come much better than this one.
- Law is not expecting an easy season, though, despite Lancashire's drop in status.
- And things aren't always easy for famous people like my dad.
- It hasn't been an easy day for the governors, so great to see you here.
- He looked set for an easy season after early domination, but a slump in his form mid-season made a race of it.
- These are not easy days, for sitting shiva is emotionally and physically draining.
- Mr Heavens said it had not been an easy year from that point of view.
- It won't be an easy summer for Ridsdale, but unlike the next manager, he can be sure he'll be there this time next year.
- In many ways, life is too easy for those American developers.
Synonyms calm, tranquil, serene, quiet, peaceful, trouble-free, untroubled, undisturbed, unworried, contented, relaxed, comfortable, secure, safe - 2.1 (of a person) lacking anxiety or awkwardness; relaxed.
（人）从容的，自如的；自在的，不拘束的 his easy and agreeable manner 他那从容的、令人愉快的举止。 they didn't feel easy about what they were doing 他们当时对自己所做的事感到有些不安。 Example sentencesExamples - There are kids riding horses and dogs chasing sticks yet we're all easy like Sunday morning.
- I'm easy, either way, just so long as we don't have to go back and live in Wales again.
- He is so easy with it that like a general who has always won battles, he has won loud applause from the audience after each show.
Synonyms natural, casual, informal, unceremonious, unreserved, uninhibited, unconstrained, unforced, unaffected, free and easy, easy-going, familiar, amiable, affable, genial, congenial, agreeable, good-humoured
3attributive (of an object of attack or criticism) having no defense; vulnerable. （攻击或批评对象）无防备的；易受攻击的；易受抨击的 he was vulnerable and an easy target 作为一个出租车司机，他很容易受到攻击并成为攻击的目标。 Example sentencesExamples - Thanks to harassed arts writers looking for easy targets, mime traditionally gets a bit of a kicking at the festival.
- Pedigree dogs worth hundreds of pounds are being seen as an easy target by criminals who sell them on at bargain prices to new owners.
- Mr Weston, a lifelong biker, said: " Bikers are easy pickings.
- You searched for premises which were comparatively easy targets.
- Part of the reason is that the lunch programs are an easy target for political special interests.
- It is thought that the attacker preyed on him because he thought he was an easy target.
- He's an easy target and they all laid into him with predictable criticism for being out of touch and old fashioned.
- Orkney has become a possible easy target for smugglers because of the lack of permanent Customs cover in the islands
- Everyone who has played them has regarded them as an easy target.
- Being slow does make them easy targets and one RAAF aircraft has come under attack in Baghdad.
- His step mum believes his condition could make him an easy target.
- It is an easy point of criticism Larry, but the problem with family violence is the hidden nature of it.
- So often the local authorities are an easy target for criticism, sometimes unfair and unjustified.
- During WWII, neon was ordered off, for fear it would make easy bombing targets.
- They concluded that the generators would be an easy target for a terrorist attack of enormous consequence.
- The stretch of 62 kilometers of the outer ring road has been a haunt for criminals who find easy targets.
- I look like easy pickings for the local bullies, but I'm not.
- I know as I've done it in other big games on the world stage, but referees always have been, and always will be, easy targets.
- It is this false sense of security that makes them such easy targets.
- Police had also warned candidates not to extend election meetings late into the night as it would make them easy targets for assassins.
Synonyms vulnerable, susceptible, exploitable, defenceless, naive, gullible, trusting, credulous, impressionable - 3.1derogatory, informal (of a woman) open to sexual advances; sexually available.
〈非正式，贬〉（女人）水性杨花的，放荡的 her reputation at school for being easy 她上学时的水性杨花的坏名声。 Example sentencesExamples - They thought she was easy, that they could buy her a drink and then get into her pants at the end of the night.
- Nobody is going to think you're easy, in fact they will probably think you are sensible and cautious.
- He must think I'm such a slut, that I'm easy white trash.
- Just ‘cause I'm pregnant doesn't mean I'm easy!’
- Yet she wasn't easy like some of the girls hanging out around Soho at that time.
- I can't believe how harsh some people are about me trying to get it on with Daniel just because I'd had a little too much to drink doesn't mean that I'm easy.
- I think I'm funny, smart, attractive, vivacious; does that mean guys automatically think I'm easy?
Synonyms promiscuous, sexually indiscriminate, free with one's favours, of easy virtue, unchaste, loose, wanton, abandoned, licentious, dissolute, dissipated, debauched
adverbˈēzēˈizi US informal, archaic Without difficulty or effort. 〈非正式，主古或美〉容易地，轻松地，不费力地 we all scared real easy in those days 在那些日子里我们都非常容易受到惊吓。 Example sentencesExamples - He found the looking glass easy enough, though why it was intact he couldn't say.
- We were playing basketball just dribbling it easy along the graffiti lot.
- It was the first time she ever gave me a real compliment, and I was surprised how easy it came to her lips.
exclamationˈēzēˈizi Be careful. 小心，当心 easy, girl—you'll knock me over! 小心，小姑娘-你会把我撞倒的！
PhrasesBe more easily talked about than put into practice. 说时容易做时难 Example sentencesExamples - The problem is that growing protein crystals is a lot easier said than done - at least on terra firma.
- I know, it's easier said than done, but it is something to aim for.
- Though I know that is easier said than done, I can support that goal as an ideal.
- At the other end the Westport forwards will have to step up to the plate in a big way but that's easier said than done against the Nallens and company.
- The etiquette rule is to use the furthest outside one as the different courses are served, but that is easier said than done.
- Indeed, to cultivate altruism is easier said than done and to do away with time-honoured beliefs is almost hopeless.
- This is often easier said than done because it takes practice and commitment.
- Because inactivity weakens the back muscles, pain sufferers should stay active, but it is sometimes easier said than done.
- Putting quality on to the nation's screens (and into the nation's radio speakers) is easier said than done.
- Forty years' experience has shown this is easier said than done, but surely it's possible.
Used to indicate that a relationship or possession acquired without effort may be abandoned or lost casually and without regret. 尤用于口语中来得容易去得快 Example sentencesExamples - For him, allegations are easy come, easy go.
- A job, a relationship, my savings account: It was easy come, easy go.
- They've won fame rather than worked for it, and they've treated it pretty much like Viv Nicholson handled her pools win - easy come, easy go.
- They nick them too, but I think easy come, easy go.
Used especially in spoken English to advise someone to approach a task carefully and slowly. 尤用于口语中小心行事；从容图之；不着急，不着忙 Example sentencesExamples - So easy does it with the imagery from now on, I promise.
- Easy, easy does it, not too much, just a little bit more.
- Carter shushed her, ‘Hey, easy does it there, Laura.’
- ‘Whoa, easy does it,’ stated the man Jasper had so uncharacteristically bashed into.
- Whether your sending out a quick ‘hello’ or ‘meet us here later’, it's easy does it all the way.
informal Pleasant to look at (or listen to). 〈非正式〉好看（或好听）的，悦目（或悦耳）的 Example sentencesExamples - Neighbours of two new futuristic ‘solar dwellings’ have been warned that the environmentally-friendly properties may not be so easy on the eye.
- Manicured lawns, weeded borders and pruned shrubs may be easy on the eye, but they're not necessarily great for encouraging wildlife.
- Both the cut scenes and in-game animation are quite smooth and generally pretty easy on the eye.
- Clean lines punctuated with specimen plants are ideal not only because they are easy on the eye, but they also have the practical benefit of aiding security.
- Invested with 16 years of research, the trainers are not only easy on the eye but they're also alleged to help you exercise more efficiently.
- We wanted people who are easy on the eye, who are really good actors, who are still in their 20s and who were available.
- The paintings are easy on the eye and very pleasant but we think that the artist is stopping short of something quite extraordinary.
- The teenage appeal doubtless springs from the fact that all of the boys are pretty easy on the eye, but that's as far as the similarities go.
- Thankfully, there was a diving team on hand to make sure none of us drowned - and they were all pretty easy on the eye.
- My two nearest neighbours are rather nice chaps who also happen to be exceptionally easy on the eye.
Synonyms good-looking, attractive, nice-looking, handsome, lovely, beautiful, pretty, as pretty as a picture, stunning, striking, arresting, prepossessing, winning, fetching, captivating, bewitching, beguiling, engaging, charming, charismatic, enchanting, appealing, delightful, irresistible
go (or 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 Example sentencesExamples - I think the press wants a good story, and they don't sit and think about who we're going to be easy on, who we're going to be hard on.
- For what it's worth, I don't think Jay has gone easy on Arnold in the monologues but he has certainly left himself wide open to the charge.
- The students were polite and went easy on the coach who was sacked earlier this season.
- Jack was livid but went easy on him as Frank bursts into tears quite readily now after the rough handling he got on the culture review.
- She's still nice and went easy on all the amateur performers.
- Good leadership isn't about pandering to your troops and going easy on them - it's about training them to standard so they come alive from combat.
- I was easy on him the week before the race and he was a good bit off full fitness.
- ‘Don't you play games with me, now tell me and we'll go easy on you… well easier,’ Toby growled.
- I don't know why I went easy on them in my previous posts, as I wanted to share all the things they do poorly when I posted recaps.
- Authorities will most likely resist any deal which may create a perception that they've gone easy on a person convicted for drug trafficking.
informal Be free from difficulties; be fortunate. 〈非正式〉没有困难，很容易；很幸运 Example sentencesExamples - A sense of failure is a horrible feeling, especially to someone like me who's always had it easy, and never really failed a subject at school.
- But for the life of me, I can't see how anybody in their right mind could possibly think she's had it easy.
- My guess is that throughout the early to mid 1990s Labour had it easy.
- Despite the expected traffic jams, potential electrical brown-outs and terrorist threats, modern Olympians and spectators have it easy, compared to their ancient counterparts.
- They didn't have it easy because I am quite an impatient person when it comes to training, I just want to do as much as I can.
- Blige, who grew up in the projects, has never had it easy, and the tough times remain embedded in her lyrics.
- There is no single country that is having it easy.
- The girls who walked the ramp on Monday had to answer questions about every thing from history, philosophy to music and clearly they did not have it easy.
- The Bay Area is a fortunate place with plentiful resources so we kind of have it easy.
- By comparison with my days of school report writing (all had to be written by hand, in permanent ink), teachers of today have it easy.
informal Said by someone when offered a choice to indicate that they have no particular preference. 〈非正式〉我随便（表示自己没有特别的喜好） Example sentencesExamples - If you don't want it to work, that's ok, I'm easy, I don't mind.
- I enjoy producing things people like and can play in… I get a kick out of it and as long as I can break even, I'm easy.
- There are a lot of good ways to do so - I'm easy like that.
dated (of a woman) very receptive to sexual advances. Example sentencesExamples - Piercings were sometimes worn by women, but only those of easy virtue.
- In Shanghai Express, probably her finest film, she was a woman of easy virtue, mouthing the famous line.
- There is a woman of easy virtue, also gleefully played by Jane Nash, who tries to entrap Bob and the usual subplot of the squire's nephew trying to anticipate his inheritance.
- He is promptly thrown into the seamy world of Montreal's nightlife - its clubs, its cabarets, its women of easy virtue.
- They looked gorgeous and portrayed, - and I hope they will not take this amiss - ladies of easy virtue decoratively and to the life.
- In this case a lady reputed to be of easy virtue and a girlfriend of one of the local policemen, had made statements intimidating the men for trial.
- Beautiful and well-bred, she suffered the hostile treatment of critics who believed that as a painter she must be a woman of easy virtue.
- She speaks of a woman of easy virtue and outstanding beauty who, when painters went to her to take her portrait, ‘showed as much of her person as she could with propriety’.
- He has been brought up by a lady of easy virtue in the bazaar.
- ‘Most of the money was spent on booze and women of easy virtue - whores in other words,’ he told me in an interview.
Synonyms promiscuous, sexually indiscriminate, free with one's favours, of easy virtue, unchaste, loose, wanton, abandoned, licentious, dissolute, dissipated, debauched
Extricate oneself from a difficult situation by choosing the simplest or most expedient course rather than the most honorable or ethical one. 选择最简单（而非最体面）的方式使自己摆脱困境 Example sentencesExamples - I took the easy way out and did the very unsporting thing of hiding my assigned fabric inside the pockets as a lining.
- He chose to take the easy way out and slam the council.
- As finance minister, Ng never took the easy way out.
- To take the easy way out, one might just chalk both up to blatant stupidity, but there are always other reasons as well.
- We should ensure that the government does that work, rather than taking the easy way out and sacrificing justice to expediency.
- There is a sense of entitlement that I think has caused many to take the easy way out.
- It is just not true, as his critics assert, that he always took the easy way out.
- As the economy plods along, many of us are choosing to take the easy way out.
- In most science exhibitions, there are student groups that take the easy way out and opt for a project that can be put together using easily available material.
- Too often, the scripts choose to take the easy way out.
1Proceed calmly and in a relaxed manner. 从容不迫，不慌不忙 Example sentencesExamples - Well, in any case, you've got another few weeks around him, so I say take it easy.
- The little question mark at the end was left in the air to imply that we are relaxed about this, so take it easy, take it easy.
- ‘Hey wow, calm down, take it easy girl,’ I said holding my hands up in self-defence.
- At one point in my career, I started to realise that I should take it easy, I should calm down.
- ‘Dude, take it easy, I was just messing around,’ Ryan wiped a little blood from his nose.
- It forces me to calm down, take it easy, and take every shot at a time, and forget the bad ones, which of course there are many.
- Larry, I think everyone should just kind of relax, take it easy.
- How can I take it easy when Mark is off sneaking around with God knows who?
- You need to be comfortable and relaxed, so take it easy.
- He said just, you know, be calm, take it easy.
Synonyms relax, unwind, loosen up, ease off, ease up, let up, slow down, de-stress, unbend, rest, repose, put one's feet up, take time off, take time out, slack off, be at leisure, take one's leisure, take one's ease, laze, luxuriate, do nothing, sit back, lounge, loll, slump, flop, idle, loaf, enjoy oneself, amuse oneself, play, entertain oneself - 1.1Make little effort; rest.
放松，休息 Example sentencesExamples - Having done all the hard work, the time before kick-off on Saturday is a case of taking it easy, eating, resting and sleeping.
- Since Christmas Day - just two days ago - I've been ‘chilling out’, relaxing and taking it easy.
- I've been relaxing around Madrid, taking it easy, enjoying the lie-ins and the food, not to mention the one or two drinks at night.
- He was clearly still taking it easy and trying to relax.
- Clearly both players preferred to take it easy and rest for their semi-finals.
- I decided to just relax and I took it easy all weekend long.
- The application of aspirin and bed rest pulled him through it by midday today and he took it easy for the rest of the day, getting better by the hour.
- Basically, it's been a day and a half of taking it easy and ambling around in the heat.
- I rose at 8:30 and am here loafing around taking it easy with my cup of tea and reading the newspaper.
- Work was pretty busy this past week and then Thursday I got sick and have been mostly taking it easy around the house since then.
Synonyms relax, unwind, loosen up, ease off, ease up, let up, slow down, de-stress, unbend, rest, repose, put one's feet up, take time off, take time out, slack off, be at leisure, take one's leisure, take one's ease, laze, luxuriate, do nothing, sit back, lounge, loll, slump, flop, idle, loaf, enjoy oneself, amuse oneself, play, entertain oneself
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） 少吃高脂肪食品。 Example sentencesExamples - Snuggle if you can, and go easy on the drink - don't give him an excuse to say it was a mistake.
- Counterintuitive though this may seem, many individuals get good control over cholesterol by going easy on their consumption of bread, potatoes, rice and pasta.
- Considering I was supposed to be going easy on the carbs this week, this is bad.
- Also, go easy on how much protein you eat, since large amounts can block calcium absorption.
- In fact, the traditional English favorite, Yorkshire Pudding, was the way that farmers wives filled the family up on a wad of bread so that they went easy on the expensive meat.
- Club heroes watch what they eat, go easy on the drink and refrain from cigarettes.
Be untroubled by (or go to sleep without) worries. this insurance policy will let you rest easy 这份保险单会让你高枕无忧。 Example sentencesExamples - Can we sleep easy at nights knowing that people are being paid sweatshop wages for our benefit?
- The Home Secretary can rest easy in his bed tonight.
- Now you can sleep easy, safe in the knowledge that someone in a position of power is promoting your agenda.
- A Ladbrokes spokesman said: ‘It looks like all the bookies will be sleeping easy in their beds on Christmas morning.’
- How this person can sleep easy at night is beyond me.
- If you were worried that the band had lost their touch, that they just weren't capable of making a good album, you can rest easy.
- They can sleep easy at night, burying thoughts that intruders may compromise their privacy.
- Regardless of what the polls might indicate, citizens are no longer resting easy in the belief that their government can be trusted to protect their interests.
- That's not my fight, and I'll sleep easy tonight knowing that I've answered the call of duty with an extra topping of usefulness.
- But on the basis of present evidence we can rest easy.
OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘comfortable, tranquil’): from Old French aisie, past participle of aisier ‘put at ease, facilitate’ (see ease). |