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The rough road across the plain soon became so bad that we tried to get Bruce to drive back to the village we had come from.

穿越原野的粗糙道路,不久变得非常糟糕,以致我们努力说服布鲁斯,把车开回我们出发的村子.

The Shakers believed that furniture should be plain, simple, useful, practical and of sound construction.

震颤派教徒认为家具应当朴素、简单、有用、实用，并且结构合理。

He set us an example of plain living.

他为我们树立了简朴生活的榜样.

Use a belt to accessorise a plain dress.

用腰带来装点一件素裙。

Salisbury Plain was known anciently as Ellendune.

索尔兹伯里平原在古代被称为Ellendune。

Patterson pointed toward a plain cardboard box beneath a long wooden table.

帕特森指着长木桌下的一个普通的纸板箱。

The family has been described variously as crass, bigoted, racist and plain boring.

人们对这家人有各种不同的评价：愚蠢、顽固、有种族偏见和无聊透顶，不一而足。

Little mountain stream is dashing down to the plain.

小山涧奔腾而下,流向平原.

The fort commanded the plain beneath.

碉堡俯视下面的平原.

They looked as if they were dressed in their Sunday best, the girls in clean white dresses, the boys in dark trousers and plain white shirts.

他们看起来像是盛装打扮了一番，女孩子们身着洁白的裙子，男孩子们一身白衣黑裤。

He wore a plain blue shirt, open at the collar.

他穿一件素净的蓝色衬衫，领口敞着。

The Cavalry were exercising on Salisbury Plain.

装甲部队在索尔兹伯里平原进行演习。

I'll tell you everything in plain words.

我将坦白地把一切事情告诉你.

He placed the paper in a plain envelope.

他把论文装进一个空白信封里。

The city is pretty much plain vanilla.

这座城市相当一般化。

The letter was written in plain English.

那封信是用浅显的英语写的.

The tanks were manoeuvrering about on the plain.

坦克在平原上调动.

We know it won't be plain sailing at Wembley because there are no easy games at this level.

我们知道在温布利不会顺风顺水，因为在这一级别就没有轻松的比赛。

It is quite plain that he is mistaken.

看来显然是他错了.

officers in plain clothes

便衣警察

He's made it plain that he loves the game and wants to be involved still.

他明确表示自己热爱这项运动，并仍想参与其中。

Pregnancy wasn't all plain sailing and once again there were problems.

孕期并非一帆风顺，这不，又出现问题了。

The food was just plain terrible.

这食物实在太难吃了。

It was the plain unvarnished truth.

这是简单确凿的事实。

Bands of government soldiers, rebels and just plain criminals have been roaming some neighborhoods.

成群结队的政府军士兵、反叛分子和彻头彻尾的犯罪分子一直在一些街区游荡。

He's a plain fool.

他是个十足的笨蛋.

Why couldn't they call you plain Ann or Alice like the rest?

他们为什么不能像其他人一样，给你取个普普通通的安或艾丽斯的名字呢？

The implication was plain, if left unstated.

其含意不言而喻。