1The quality or condition of being easy to understand or do.

为简明起见，本章将着重介绍一种理论。

1. 1.1 The quality or condition of being plain or natural.
   简明；简易；简单
   the grandeur and simplicity of Roman architecture

   罗马建筑的庄严、简朴。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Elegant simplicity in design and in the final product is what counts here.
   • The design was created for simplicity and ruggedness and the main structure was all metal.
   • The judging panel was very impressed by the overall layout and simplicity of the design of their advert.
   • We've tried to keep to some of the basic color scheme and, I hope, the relative simplicity of the design.
   • There is no extraneous body cladding, in keeping with the Swedish design ethos of simplicity.
   • That's why in today's modern interior design, simplicity is the key to an efficient design.
   • As with other fashion accessories, opt for simplicity when selecting your winter hat.
   • I do love Ransom's drawings, for their simplicity of line and the purity of their excitement.
   • On a micro level, simplicity in design presents the audience with only the most relevant information.
   • Google understands that simplicity is both sacred and central to its competitive advantage.
   • The simplicity of the design allows for quick and easy set up anywhere around town where concrete exists.
   • The obtained data are particularly convincing by virtue of the bioscope's simplicity in design.
   • The simplicity of her designs here, the aura of unforced beauty truly took them to the next level.
   • They range from lovely, understated elegance and simplicity to wild extravagance.
   • The current design stresses speed and simplicity but it's become very cluttered over the years.
   • Refinement and sensibility as well as simplicity are still the best standards of web design!
   • The sheer simplicity of this pair of sandals underscores the simplicity of the entire line.
   • The store has an overriding accent on simplicity of design and ease of shopping for the customers.
   • I snapped a few images of Evan's crib because his parents marveled at its simplicity and design.
   • The final design emphasizes its simplicity, heavily relying on upstage lighting technique and set movement.

   Synonyms

   plainness, absence of adornment, lack of adornment, absence of decoration, lack of decoration, absence of ornament, absence of ornamentation, lack of ornament, lack of ornamentation, absence of embellishment, lack of embellishment, unpretentiousness

   unpretentiousness, ordinariness, lack of sophistication, lack of affectation, naturalness, modesty, homeliness, wholesomeness, quietness
2. 1.2 A thing that is plain, natural, or easy to understand.
   单纯自然的事情，简明易懂的事情
   the simplicities of pastoral living

   田园生活的简朴单纯。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • All of which makes one nostalgic for the simplicities of the Second World War, when war correspondents on both sides were expected to be unquestioning patriots.
   • He has had a four-decade-long artistic career that spans a seismic shift in the character of New Zealand society: the shift from monolithic simplicities to multicultural complexity.
   • He sounds those same simplicities of profound music Blake also knew.
   • He kept waving him off, pouring the matter into legalistic simplicities that easily rounded the contract.
   • We are more than consumers, and those other realities always undermine the simplicities of ‘consumerism’.
   • The responses of some are unsettling and go far beyond the simplicities of political satire.
   • Joshua found himself unable to alter his gaze upon this, one of the simplicities he undeniably loved.
   • Otherwise it will not have much work to do, because science is now beyond the wit of ordinary simplicities.
   • Computers make this complex architecture possible, obviating the simplicities of serial production.
   • Many such analytical simplicities must change; particularly because they are predicated on Eurocentric assumptions.
   • Maeve grumbled about how these people didn't understand the fundamental simplicities of adding on.
   • He could cut straight through the guff to the heart of sport's simplicities.
   • This accessible mini-biography rejects these simplicities and presents a much more rounded account.
   • The world is too complex and dangerous for his pious simplicities.
   • Football, management, is about mastered simplicities, repeatedly choreographed and rehearsed, so that they become adroitly performed.
   • For city-dwellers, rural Kerala (and Kerala is essentially rural, since the countryside envelops the towns in a seamless web) was a world of rustic simplicities and private inconveniences.
   • Once or twice I did worry that the enormous complexity of human affairs was being contrasted to the regular simplicities of nature and its cycles of life.
   • It was the standard ‘common sense’ of the ignorant unencumbered by rigorous analysis, yet there was often a nagging grain of truth in his half-baked simplicities.
   • Lexical skills go well beyond the simplicities of printed words with white space on either side.
   • Decisive during the simplicities of battle, without her he would forever be a waverer in the complexities of peace: more Hamlet, indeed, than Macbeth.

   Synonyms

   straightforwardness, ease, easiness, simpleness, absence of complication, lack of complication, effortlessness, manageability