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eas·y1 /ˈiːzi/ ●●● S1 W1 adjectiveadj (comparativecomp easier, superlativesupl easiest)
1  NEARnot difficult 不困難的 not difficult to do, and not needing much effort 容易的，不費力的 OPP difficult, hard
The test was easy.
考試很容易。
Finishing the task will not be easy.
完成這項任務並不容易。
There must be an easier way to do that.
一定有更容易的方法去做那件事。
easy to do something
It’s a great car, and very easy to drive.
這車真不錯，開起來很容易。
instructions that are easy to follow
易於掌握的使用說明
It would have been easy for the team to lose the game.
球隊本來是很容易會輸掉這場比賽的。
make it easier (to do something)
The software makes it easier to download music.
該軟件使下載音樂變得更加容易。
Having you here does make things a lot easier for me.
對我來說，有你在這裏事情的確好辦多了。
as easy as pie/ABC/falling off a log (=very easy) 易如反掌
The station is within easy reach of (=close to) the town centre.
車站離市中心不遠。
The park is within easy walking distance (=close enough to walk to).
公園很近，步行便可到達。
2  comfortable 舒適的 comfortable or relaxed, and without problems 舒適的；安逸的 OPP hard
On the whole, Dad has had an easy life.
總而言之，爸爸過着安逸舒適的生活。
easy day/week etc
She had a nice easy day at home.
她在家裏舒舒服服地過了一天。
You can have an easy time of it now that the kids have all left home.
孩子們都離開了家，你日子可以過得輕鬆了。
Why don’t we make life easy for ourselves and finish it tomorrow?
我們幹嗎不讓自己的日子好過點，明天再把它做完不好嗎？
3  not worried 不擔心的RELAXED not feeling worried or anxious 不擔心的；不緊張的 OPP uneasy
We talk more openly when we feel easy and relaxed.
我們感到氣氛輕鬆、不受拘束時，談話就會更放得開。
I can leave the children with my mother with an easy mind.
我可以安心地把孩子留給我母親照看。
4  friendly 友善的 friendly and pleasant with other people 易相處的，平易近人的
She is gentle and easy to be with.
她很和藹，也容易相處。
5  easily attacked 易受攻擊的ATTACK able to be hunted or attacked without difficulty 易受追獵的；易受襲擊的
The soldiers on the streets are an easy target for terrorists.
街上的士兵容易成爲恐怖分子襲擊的目標。
Tourists are easy prey for thieves.
遊客易成爲小偷下手的對象。
6  take the easy way out to end a situation in a way that seems easy, but is not the best or most sensible way 采取省事的做法〔但不是最佳或最明智的做法〕以擺脫困境
I just took the easy way out and gave him some cash.
我就用了個簡單的辦法解決，給了他一些現金。
Examples from the Corpus
take the easy way out• But these days, if it looks as if it's going to be nasty, I take the easy way out.• Fishwick, however, does not take the easy way out.• This healthy, realistic fear helps the organization resist the temptation to take the easy way out of a problematic situation.• Too many people take the easy way out of financial trouble by declaring bankruptcy.• Not surprisingly they take the easy way out when food is put out for them each day.
7  have an easy time (of it) EASYto have no problems or difficulties 沒有問題；很順心
She’s not been having an easy time of it financially.
她手頭一直不寬裕。
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have an easy time (of it)• Hu did not have an easy time of it at first.• She hasn't had an easy time of it since Jack left.
8  easy money EARNmoney that you do not have to work hard to get 來得容易的錢
We can buy them for $10 and sell them for $25 – easy money.
我們可以把它們以10美元買下，再25美元賣掉——這錢來得容易。
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easy money• Disadvantages: Some part-timers regard Koi dealing as a way of making easy money.• Instead, he is expected to surrender one-third of the Championship and opt for some easy money.• People will tell you you can make easy money.• Sincere spirit and moral authority count, not quick and easy money.• The reason too much easy money and not enough dedication and genuine love for one's chosen work.• The thought of easy money draws many people to drug dealing.• Owing to legal changes, young barristers can no longer earn easy money on undefended divorces, which are now done by solicitors.• In discussing the easy money prescription we have chosen a fairly extreme version of it, in part to get students excited.• The easy money regime focused attention on monetary policy and contributed to the significance accorded to the money supply in later years.
9  easy on the eye/ear BEAUTIFUL/GOOD-LOOKINGpleasant to look at or listen to 好看的/悅耳的
Soft colours are easy on the eye.
柔和的顔色很悅目。
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easy on the eye/ear• I like jazz because it's usually easy on the ear.• Above all, it should be as physically comfortable and relaxing as it is easy on the eye.• Garda Garda is a charming old village that is very easy on the eye.• It was vital that they should be prompt and professional as well as easy on the eye.• This exhibit, Without Sanctuary, is not easy on the eyes.• It's all been a bit too easy on the ear and eye.• The layout and print is easy on the eye and the revision passages for dictation becomes increasingly difficult as the book progresses.• Ken Russell's production is certainly easy on the eye, but fans are expecting a bit more than a well-turned ankle.• And frankly, she's pretty easy on the eyes, too.
10. it’s/that’s easy for you to say spokenADVISE used when someone has given you some advice that would be difficult for you to follow 你說得倒容易
11. there are no easy answers used when saying that it is difficult to find a good way of dealing with a problem 很難找到好的解決辦法
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there are no easy answers• So there are no easy answers.• As usual, there are no easy answers to explain human behavior.• But suddenly we find ourselves acknowledging that there are no easy answers to the dilemmas Christians face.• There are no easy answers to this problem.
12  I’m easy spokenDON'T CARE used to say that you do not mind what choice is made 我随便，我無所謂〔即無論哪種選擇都可以〕
‘What would you like to do now?’ ‘I don’t know, I’m easy.’
“現在你想做什麽？” “不知道，我随便。”
Examples from the Corpus
I’m easy• "Do you want to stop at the mall now or on the way home?" "I'm easy."• "Do you want to watch the news or the late night film?'' "I'm easy.''
13  be (living) on easy street especially American EnglishAmE informal RICH to be in a situation in which you have plenty of money 手頭很寬裕，生活優裕
If I get this new job, we’ll be living on easy street.
如果我得到這份新的工作，我們的日子就好過了。
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be (living) on easy street• By the time this Clinton-Dole thing is over, you and I could be living on Easy Street.
14  on easy terms BBTPAY FORif you buy something on easy terms, you pay for it with several small payments instead of paying the whole amount at once 〔購物〕分期付款
New settlers in the west could buy land on relatively easy terms.
西部的新移民可以用相對優惠的分期付款方式購買地産。
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on easy terms• Harvey maintains a continual easy-reading knowingness for his audience, an intimacy on easy terms with everything he talks about.
15. eggs over easy American EnglishAmEDF eggs cooked on a hot surface and turned over quickly before serving 嫩煎蛋
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eggs over easy• He orders eggs over easy, bacon and sliced tomatoes.• My father died of eggs-three eggs over easy every day.
16. woman/lady/girl of easy virtue old-fashionedSY a woman who has sex with a lot of men 水性楊花的女子
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woman/lady/girl of easy virtue• Sadly, morals and behaviour ashore had deteriorated too with more drunks and ladies of easy virtue in evidence.
17. sex 性 informalSY someone, especially a woman, who is easy has a lot of sexual partners 〔尤指女性〕淫蕩的
→ see also ease1, easily
 THESAURUS
easy not difficult to do, and not needing much effort 容易的，不費力的
an easy task
不費力的任務
The house was easy to find.
那房子很容易找。
simple easy and not complicated – used about things such as instructions and explanations, or about machines and systems 〔使用說明或機器、系統等〕簡單的，容易的
The system is relatively simple to operate.
這個系統操作起來相對簡單。
a simple recipe for chocolate cake
制作巧克力蛋糕的簡單方法
straightforward easy to understand or do, and unlikely to cause you any problems 簡單的，易懂的
a straightforward explanation
簡單易懂的解釋
The calculation is fairly straightforward.
計算挺簡單的。
user-friendly easy to use – used especially about computers or written information about how to do something 〔尤指計算機或書面操作說明〕易使用的，易掌握的
Their website is very user-friendly.
他們的網站很容易使用。
a user-friendly guide to owning a dog
易懂的養狗指南
undemanding easy because it does not take a lot of effort 要求不高的，不費力的
It was an undemanding role for someone of his experience.
這工作對有他這樣經驗的人來說並不難。
cushy /ˈkʊʃi/ informal a cushy job is easy to do and needs very little effort – often used when you are envious of the person who has it 〔工作〕輕鬆的，容易的〔常用於對做某工作的人表示羨慕〕
It’s a pretty cushy job – all she has to do is drive a nice car around.
她的工作太輕鬆了，只要開着好車四處轉悠就行。
na cushy number (=a very easy job)
mindless so easy that you can do it without thinking – used especially when it makes you feel bored 無需動腦筋的〔尤指枯燥乏味〕
mindless tasks
機械的工作
painless without any difficulties or problems – used especially when you expected something to be much worse 不費力的〔尤用於表示原以爲某事要難得多〕
Finding the carhire place at the airport was relatively painless.
找機場的租車處沒費多大勁。
nThankfully, there's a wide selection of search tools to make the task relatively painless.
be plain sailing British EnglishBrE, be smooth sailing American EnglishAmE to be easy and with no problems that you have to deal with 順利，一帆風順
Things should be plain sailing from now on.
從現在起一切都該一帆風順了。
informal phrases meaning very easy
be a piece of cake informal to be very easy to do, especially compared to doing something else 輕而易舉，是小菜一碟
This test was a piece of cake compared to the last one.
這次測驗和上次相比是小菜一碟。
be child’s play informal to be surprisingly easy, or much easier than something else which is very difficult or dangerous 做起來非常容易
Getting people’s credit card details is child’s play when you know how to do it.
只要掌握了方法，獲取此類信息就再容易不過了。
Climbing in England is child’s play compared to climbing in the Himalayas.
在英格蘭登山與攀登喜馬拉雅山相比簡直如兒戲一般。
be a breeze informal (also be a doddle British EnglishBrE) to be very easy to do 容易，輕鬆
The software is a doddle to use.
這個軟件很容易使用。
nThe check-in process was a breeze.
it’s not rocket science informal used when saying that something is very easy to do or understand, and you do not need to be intelligent to do it 那並不是難做的事〔表示不必很聰明就能做成或理解某事〕
Making your PC run faster isn’t exactly rocket science.
讓個人電腦運行得更快一些並非什麽難事。
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easy• Susan's always found school work easy.• The questions were really easy.• Being a teacher isn't easy.• With the use of oil as a transport fuel for cars, things are not so easy.• Was it easy for you to find a job?• It's an easy journey - we just drive to the station, then take the direct train to Paris.• He has lived an easy life in college for the last few years.• I think Paul's had a pretty easy life.• Lawyers really have it easy -- lots of money for very little work.• The Merrimac laid off at easy point-blank range, discharging her broadsides alternately at the Cumberland and the Congress.• As on Suilven, the ridge dips to an easy saddle and rises to an east top.• This is of course very easy since what the spreadsheet has stored in cells C and D is a time serial number.• Ms. Morrell is a small woman with a soft voice and an easy smile.• Mr. Taylor is an easy teacher.• This is not an easy time to be traveling.• The Bit Shot is also quiet, lightweight and easy to handle.• Microsoft is a longer name, yet still easy to pronounce, and described the software product perfectly.• All the instructions are in large print to make them easy to read.• It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring.• It is easy to see why she didn't marry him.• He doesn't find it easy to talk about his personal feelings.• There's no easy way to solve this problem.
easy to do something• Within this range, it is relatively easy to achieve off-line training, convergence, and modification.• The decision should be made in the first instance as if it were easy to be made.• It was easy to coax him into talking about pleasant things, that was part of his job.• They will be relatively easy to dispose of once the big warrens have been worked out and closed down.• Electrical recording has made this fatally easy to do: much easier than confiding to a written diary.• One simple solution which is easy to interpret is obtained by requiring that each term in the wave equation is separately zero.• Sometimes the lavas are hard and dense, broken but in place and easy to pick up with the manipulator.• Also has an easy to use editor.
easy life• From boyhood he disdained an easy life.• His forefathers had built the mills, and it hadn't been a particularly easy life.• It was not an easy life.• Like Polonius, Amis passed on his secrets to an easy life.• Nockerd Sockett had not had an easy life.• I agree that it's not a particularly easy life for most people to support.• The easy life he had known seemed to have suddenly stopped.
easy to be with• It was so easy to be with Sebastian.
easy target• Well, the reader may say, he's small fry, an easy target.• Young people are an easy target.• It's always sad when a figure of fun, an easy target for a laugh, disappears into oblivion.• Such an organization would have been an easy target for Labour's disciplinarians.• That makes them easy targets for mining industry recruiters.• It was a natural and easy target for newspapers.• However, the uniformed, sixteen-legged crocodile was an easy target for ridicule.
easy2 ●●● S2 adverbadv
1  take it easy 
a) (also take things easy)RELAXED to relax and not do very much 放鬆，悠着點
Take things easy for a few days and you should be all right.
休息幾天你就沒事了。
b) spokenCALM used to tell someone to become less upset or angry 〔勸人〕别煩惱；不要生氣
Just take it easy and tell us what happened.
别急，告訴我們發生了什麽事。
c) American EnglishAmE spoken used to say goodbye 再見
2  go easy on/with something USE somethingto not use too much of something 節省使用…，對…節制
Go easy on salty foods such as bacon.
熏豬肉等鹹的食物不要吃得太多。
3  go easy on somebody STRICTto be more gentle and less strict or angry with someone 對某人溫和［寬容］些
Go easy on Peter for a while – he’s having a hard time at school.
這陣子對彼得好一點吧，他眼下在學校裏日子不好過。
4  easier said than done especially spokenDIFFICULT used to say that something would be very difficult to do 說來容易做來難
Finding the perfect house was easier said than done.
要找到十全十美的房子談何容易。
5  rest/breathe easy RELAXEDto stop worrying 不再擔心，停止憂慮
We can rest easy now – we’ve got everything under control.
我們現在不用擔心了，一切盡在掌控之中。
6. easy does it spokenCAREFUL used to tell someone to be more careful and slow, especially in moving 〔告訴别人，尤其是搬東西的人〕小心點
7  get off easy informal to escape severe punishment for something that you have done wrong 逃脫懲罰
The rich could hire good lawyers and get off easy.
有錢人可以聘請好律師，逃脫懲罰。
8. easy come, easy goeasy go easy come spokenEASY used when something, especially money, was easily obtained and is quickly used or spent 來得容易，去得快〔尤指錢財〕
9. stand easy PMan order telling soldiers who are already standing at ease to relax more 〔軍事口令〕原地休息
From Longman Business Dictionary
easyeas·y /ˈiːzi/ adjectiveadj
1(on) easy terms if you buy something on easy terms, you pay for it with several small payments, rather than paying the whole amount at once
Farmers can obtain credit on very easy terms from government sources.
2be easier when prices are easier, they are slightly lower
Gold was slightly easier yesterday, ending in London at $362.50 an ounce.
3on easy street American EnglishAmE informal having all the money you need
The $2 million he has to invest will produce enough money to keep him on easy street for the rest of his life.
Origin easy1
(1100-1200) Old French aisié, from aise; → EASE1

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