粵

單daan1純seon4

simp单纯
daan1 seon4dān chún

English

  1. simple
  2. pure
  3. unsophisticated
  4. merely
  5. purely
  6. simple; innocent; artless; inexperienced
  7. purely; merely

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 天真簡單、唔複雜
  2. 淨係

Examples

  • 我哋一出世,呢個世界就開始將我哋加工,由單純嘅生物變成社會嘅一份子。

    As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.

    Tatoeba · clowergen CC BY

  • 留西雅是一個很單純的姑娘。

    Lucia is a simple kind of girl.

    Tatoeba · xjjAstrus CC BY

  • 我們當前的危機絕非單純的經濟危機。

    Our current crisis is no mere economic crisis.

    Tatoeba · LeviHighway CC BY

  • 我还记得我第一次去中国,我在山东,意识到那个单纯的省比英格兰大两万六千平方公里。

    I still remember the first time I was in China; I was in Shandong, and I realised that that province alone is twenty six thousand square kilometres bigger than England.

    Tatoeba · eastasiastudent CC BY

  • 嗰個女仔思想好單純。

    That girl seems naive. ----

  • 佢做嗰份工並唔係單純為咗錢。

    He took that job not merely because of money.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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