Sim‑ple

Definition

simple /'sÇmpl/ adj ( -r , -st ) ၁။ လြယ္ေသာ။ မခက္ေသာ။ a simple task/sum/problem/answer ❍ written in simple English ❍ The machine is quite simple to use. ၂။ ႐ိုးေသာ၊ အထူးျပင္ဆင္မထားေသာ။ simple food/furniture ❍ The hotel is simple and informal. အဲဒီဟိုတယ္က ႐ိုး႐ိုးပဲ၊ ဟိတ္ဟန္မမ်ားဘူး။ ❍ enjoy a/the simple life (ie a way of living without expensive goods, entertainments, etc) ❍ clothes that are simple but elegant. ႐ိုးေပမည့္ စမတ္က်တဲ့အဝတ္ေတြ။ ၃။ (က) ႐ိုးေသာ။ ရွင္းေသာ။ a simple design/tool/model ❍ a simple sentence ဝါက်႐ိုး။ ❍ I'm afraid that the position is not as simple as that. အဲဒီအေနအထားကေတာ့ ဒါေလာက္ ႐ိုး႐ိုး ရွင္းရွင္းေလး ဟုတ္မယ္မထင္ဘူး။ (ခ) ႐ိုးစင္းေသာ။ အေျခခံ က်ေသာ။ simple forms of life ❍ a fairly simple system of classification. ၄။ အပိုအလိုမရိွ။ ဟုတ္တိုင္း မွန္ရာ။ ရွင္းရွင္းလင္းလင္း။ give a simple unbiased account of events ျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ားကို ဓမၼဓိ႒ာန္က်က်၊ ရွင္းရွင္း တင္ျပသည္။ ❍ It's a simple fact. ဒါကေတာ့ ရွင္းေနတဲ့ အခ်က္ပဲ။ ❍ The reason is quite simple — I just like horses. ❍ He didn't manage to sell it for the simple reason that (ie because) the price was too high. ၅။ (က) ႐ိုး႐ိုးေျဖာင့္ေျဖာင့္။ ေျဗာင္။ တဲ့တိုး။ behave in a simple, open way. (ခ) သာမန္။ ႐ိုး႐ိုး။ I'm just a simple soldier. ၆။ (က) ယံုလြယ္ေသာ။ အသိေခါင္းပါးေသာ။ ႐ိုးအ ေသာ။ He's not as simple as he looks. (ခ) ( infml ) ထံုေသာ။ နေသာ။ She doesn't understand you. She's a bit simple. ၇။ ( grammar ) (အေထာက္ကူျပဳႀကိယာမပါ) ႐ိုး႐ိုး (အတိတ္၊ ပစၥဳပၸန္) ကာလျပ။ (သာဓက _ They grow coffee, She loved him, He came ဝါက်တို႔မွ grow, loved, came ႀကိယာမ်ား)။ the simple present/past tense. ❏ simple fracture n ေငါထြက္ျခင္းမရိွေသာ အ႐ိုးက်ဳိးပံု။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးက်ဳိး။ ❏ simple interest n [U] အတိုး႐ိုး႐ိုး။ Compare COMPOUND INTEREST ❏ simple-minded adj ( often derog ) ႐ိုးအေသာ။ ႏံုေသာ။ a simple-minded approach to the problem ❍ He think I'm simple-minded enough to believe him. ❏ simply /'sÇmpli/ adv ၁။ အလြယ္တကူ။ လြယ္လြယ္။ ရွင္းရွင္း။ solved quite simply ❍ Explain it as simply as you can. ၂။ ႐ိုး႐ိုး။ ဇာမခ်ဲ႕ဘဲ ။ be simply dressed ❍ live simply. ၃။ တကယ္။ တကယ့္ကို။ ယတိျပတ္။ His pronunciation is simply terrible. ❍ I simply refuse to go! ၄။ သာ။ ႐ံုမွ်။ ကာမွ်။ သက္သက္။ I bought the picture simply because I liked it. ❍ Is success simply a matter of working hard? ၅။ တိုတို(ေျပာရရင္)။ Quite simply, we can't afford it. ❍ It's simply that we like to deal with customers direct and not through an agent.

Examples

1. Students were given a simple skills test.
2. The book tries to give simple explanations of some very complex scientific ideas.
3. It’s a good idea
4. but implementing it won’t be as simple as you think.
5. [simple to do] : The machine is fairly simple to operate.
6. [(not) that simple] : All you have to do is press the button. It’s that simple.
7. Sally likes clothes that are simple but elegant.
8. Ben used to live in a simple cabin in the woods.
9. A simple meal
10. It’s just a simple cold.
11. [simple fact] : The simple fact is that he wants a divorce.
12. [for the simple reason that] : The country has no navy for the simple reason that it has no sea.
13. Archaeologists found several simple tools at the site.
14. By issuing simple voice commands
15. you can get the computer to perform most functions.
16. A simple leaf/organism
17. Her grandparents were simple people who never had much money.