We talk about reducing our costs, but it's easier said than done. 我们谈如何降低成本,但说起来容易,做起来就难了。
He has stopped working and leads a very easy life. 他现在不做事了,过着很舒服的日子。
Take your time; easy does it. 省点劲儿;别那麽卖力。
easy easied, easier, easiest
[ adj ]
posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
<adj.all> an easy job an easy problem an easy victory the house is easy to heat satisfied with easy answers took the easy way out of his dilemma
free from worry or anxiety
<adj.all> knowing that I had done my best, my mind was easy an easy good-natured manner by the time the chsild faced the actual problem of reading she was familiar and at ease with all the elements words [ adv ]
with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')
<adv.all> she was easily excited was easily confused he won easily this china breaks very easily success came too easy
without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
<adv.all> he spoke slowly go easy here--the road is slippery glaciers move tardily please go slow so I can see the sights
in a relaxed manner; or without hardship
<adv.all> just wanted to take it easy [ adj ]
not hurried or forced
<adj.all> an easy walk around the block at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace
affording pleasure
<adj.all> easy good looks
having little impact
<adj.all> an easy pat on the shoulder gentle rain a gentle breeze a soft (or light) tapping at the window
readily exploited or tricked
<adj.all> an easy victim an easy mark
in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
<adj.all> they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards easy living a prosperous family his family is well-situated financially well-to-do members of the community
marked by moderate steepness
<adj.all> an easy climb a gentle slope
affording comfort
<adj.all> soft light that was easy on the eyes
casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
<adj.all> her easy virtue he was told to avoid loose (or light) women wanton behavior
less in demand and therefore readily obtainable
<adj.all> commodities are easy this quarter
obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally
<adj.all> easy money
Easy \Eas"y\, a. [Compar. {Easier}; superl. {Easiest}.] [OF. aisi['e], F. ais['e], prop. p. p. of OF. aisier. See {Ease}, v. t.] 1. At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint; as: (a) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. (b) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. (c) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style. ``The easy vigor of a line.'' --Pope.
2. Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing. ``Easy ways to die.'' --Shak.
3. Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
It were an easy leap. --Shak.
4. Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.
5. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.
He gained their easy hearts. --Dryden.
He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch. --Sir W. Scott.
6. Moderate; sparing; frugal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
7. (Com.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to {tight}.
{Honors are easy} (Card Playing), said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points.
But with yesterday's victory by Henlys in the battle of the motor traders - following hot on the heels of Manders' successful defence against fellow paint maker Kalon - the predators' lot is not proving an easy one.
Vote totals were not immediately released, although Georgia-Pacific said previously it controlled enough shares to ensure easy approval of the merger.
Many bird species find golf courses and sod farms good feeding grounds, especially in urban areas where these large expanses of green are easy to spot from the air.
The easy profits are gone, and many investors may find their initial capital in jeopardy.
As for state officials, Featherman said, "I'm not sure the state wants the problem of managing Philadelphia's debt." Madonna said getting more state aid won't be easy, especially in an election year.
What he had called them about, it quickly transpired, was a great chance to make some easy bucks in Allis-Chalmers stock.
Dukakis worked on his speech Wednesday after meeting briefly with Jackson, his former rival, to discuss the fall campaign. Dukakis sat in an easy chair in the bedroom of his hotel suite revising a draft of his speech with a pen.
Moscow wants IMF endorsement of its credentials as a pro-reform government, while the Fund is seeking to justify its position as lead manager in helping Russia remake its economy in the capitalist mould. Reaching agreement will not be easy.
'Of course, it is not easy,' says Kuwahara.
"We have to fight ourselves into new markets, and that's not easy," Mr. Scheider said.
Stanek said it was amazingly easy.
It's easy to see why Tonda appeals to those who shun the crowds of Rimini or Riccione.
But it is easy to find this kind of fault.
Inner-city regeneration, training and defence industry diversification all look promising areas. It is easy to spot the sticks and carrots.
These catalogs offered a limited selection of merchandise and made shopping easy by taking orders round-the-clock on toll-free telephone lines.
An ITC is easy to implement and is effective as a stimulus to investment.
After all, as he put it, 'that's the point of the whole thing - growth and employment'. But for so consummate a politician as Mr Clarke, this week was the easy part.
Nor should spectators expect things to be easy.
That's not going to be easy; management in many cases hasn't got the foggiest idea.' A further aspect of the differences between Chinese and western operations is the way they evaluate their corporations financially.
Eisner asked. "In a word, panic." In an interview published in Friday's Contra Costa Times, Eisner, 48, said he rarely rests easy.
Members find it easy to doctor legislation by slipping in special provisions that could never survive in the cold light of day.
In a rundown West Texas bar called the Sundowner Recreational Club, dreams go down as easy as a cold bottle of Pearl Beer and are just as intoxicating.
Those changes are relatively easy. "The more complicated issue is how to deal with the drivers," Boffa said.
The most controversial lobbying effort by Wright was the pressure he put on federal regulators to go easy on Texas thrift institutions that were failing due to a weak economy.
One easy one would be to relax some of the protectionist restrictions that now keep Koreans from enjoying the full benefits of international trade.
"There's no easy definition of what safe or unsafe is.
And young people say to me, `Oh, that's easy."' The 150 people in the East Room of the White House laughed.
This was really just a piece of political theatre: easy to understand, vibrant with symbolism, but devoid of operational significance. Europe is a different matter.
We readily admit that this will not be easy to accomplish.
When the athletes learned that playing dice was also an easy way to lose money, some turned to armed robbery, the students said.