plains
英 [pleɪns] 美 [pleɪns]

n.

平原( plain的名词复数 )；平地；[纺织业]平针；朴实无华的东西

英英释义

plain[ pleinz ]

• n.
  • extensive tract of level open land

    "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"

    同义词：fieldchampaign

  • a basic knitting stitch

    同义词：knitknit stitchplain stitch

• v.express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

  "My mother complains all day"

  同义词：complainkicksound offquetchkvetch

• adj.
  • clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

    "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"

    同义词：apparentevidentmanifestpatentunmistakable

  • not elaborate or elaborated; simple

    "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"

  • lacking patterns especially in color

    同义词：unpatterned

  • not mixed with extraneous elements

    "plain water"

    同义词：sheerunmingledunmixed

  • free from any effort to soften to disguise

    "the plain and unvarnished truth"

    同义词：unvarnished

  • lacking embellishment or ornamentation

    "a plain hair style"

    同义词：barespareunembellishedunornamented

  • lacking in physical beauty or proportion

    "a plain girl with a freckled face"

    同义词：homely

• adv.unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')

  "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn"

  同义词：obviouslyevidentlymanifestlypatentlyapparentlyplainly

词组短语

great plains大平原（北美中西部的平原和河谷地区）

white plains纽约州白原市

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. From the hill top we could see the plains below.
   从山顶上我们可以看到山下的大平原。
2. The vast plains stretch for hundreds of miles.
   辽阔的平原绵延数百英里。

权威例句

Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains: Group Living in an Asocial Animal by T.M. Caro
Bison Jump Sites in the Northwestern Plains of North America: A locational Analysis
Plains cottonwood recruitment and survival on a prairie meandering river floodplain, Milk River, southern Alberta and northern Montana
Chromosome variations in the plains woodrat: A pericentric inversion involving constitutive heterochromatin
Surface modification of Venus as inferred from Magellan observations of plains
Cats in Groups. (Book Reviews: Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains. Group Living in an Asocial Species.)
Wildlife Behavior and Ecology Series: Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains: Group living in an asocial species
Black-tailed prairie dogs and the structure of avian communities on the shortgrass plains
Effects of Phosphorus Nutrition and Defoliation on C^4 Graminoids from the Serengeti Plains