easily

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eas·i·ly /ˈiːzəli/ S2 W1 adverbadv

1 EASYwithout problems or difficulties 容易地，轻易地

They won quite easily.

他们赢得相当轻松。

We found the house easily enough.

我们轻轻松松就找到了房子。

easily accessible/available etc

The castle is easily accessible by road.

开车去城堡很方便。

easily understood/identified etc

It’s easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers.

它那鲜蓝色的尾羽使人很容易认出它来。

2 could/can/might easily POSSIBLEused to say that something is possible or is very likely to happen 可能；极有可能

The first signs of the disease can easily be overlooked.

这种疾病的早期症状很容易被忽略。

Gambling can all too easily become an addiction (=used to say that something bad is very possible).

赌博极易成瘾。

Examples from the Corpus

could/can/might easily• Young minds can easily assimilate and embrace all kinds of musical styles.• A single mutational step can easily be reversed.• If you are writing on a complex topic a reader can easily become confused.• Yet the world champion is so unpredictably gifted that one on-song display could easily enable her to sweep aside the opposition.• Governments can easily guarantee their employees a job, without guaranteeing the job they currently hold.• This was his hobby, sketching vertical monstrosities, though he might easily have been a spy.• But a small error in the procedure could easily leave her inoperable, or at least changed beyond recognition.• A high-resolution image, by contrast, could easily run as large as 15 million to 20 million bytes.

3 easily the best/biggest etc CERTAINLY/DEFINITELYdefinitely the best etc 绝对是最好的/最大的等

She is easily the most intelligent person in the class.

她绝对是班上最聪明的。

Examples from the Corpus

easily the best/biggest etc• Aluminium benching is easily the best, as it virtually lasts for ever and is easily cleaned.• Johnny Hero played the between set music - again proving that he hosts easily the best disco in town.• It's easily the best Fermanagh side I've played on.• He's easily the best military brain in the country.• The greens were easily the best part of the dish.• The pension is easily the biggest single cash benefit.• It gave easily the best value.• Natural gas forms easily the biggest world reserve of methane-rich fuel.

4 RELAXEDin a relaxed way 轻松地，松弛地

His son grinned easily back at him.

他的儿子向他轻松地咧嘴回笑。

Examples from the Corpus

easily• Before she had taken him over he must have written too easily.• When I went to college, I made friends very easily.• But the balance is easily adjustable with any Dolby Pro Logic receiver.• The bike can easily be assembled in thirty minutes.• You could easily categorise your addresses into five sections.• A burglar could easily climb in through that window.• These plates are easily damaged, so please be careful with them.• It is a claim not to be easily dismissed.• Some of the hilltops were easily eight hundred feet above the valleys.• It can just as easily fall back into anti-feminism.• I'll easily finish the report by Friday.• Lizzie and Jane are so alike that they're easily mistaken for each other.• He is easily the highest paid player in baseball.• As with many gifted people, a moment came when Fanshawe was no longer satisfied with doing what came easily to him.• She smiled easily when I asked about her hometown.

easily enough• Buck remembers the date easily enough.• They ought to find the house easily enough.• I couldn't carry her, but she dragged easily enough, and at first the shingle was hard enough to walk on.• The rest followed easily enough, and today she has ten houses in the former Soviet Union.• We found the village easily enough, though anyone travelling in the area in a Porsche had better not blink.• Dreadnought's anchor had come up easily enough when the salvage tug came to dispose of her.

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