They should have some courage, and they should stop it. It is no good for the players, and somehow I hope the players have the ability around the world to stand up and say we are not playing on this, plain and simple."

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

It is the coastal plain, and that provides, or that is the main highway out of Egypt or down to Egypt.

这就是海岸平原，它提供了或说它本身就是,离开埃及或者下埃及的主要通道。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

and then there's a plain house, which isn't a cultural house. That's just what I'm in.

还有一个普通房，不是文化房。我就住在那里。

有趣的宿舍生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This year, the Center for Plain Language is holding its first contest for best and worst language use.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Inside the suitcase is a plain piece of white paper and the children were asked to draw the things they think they would need on the trip. Sometimes they get they wouldn't need.

行李箱里面是一张普通的白纸,我要求孩子们,在纸上画出他们认为必要的,旅行用品，有时候他们画出来的并不需要。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Instead of fine print that hides the truth, we need credit card forms and statements that have plain language in plain sight."

VOA: special.2009.05.22

I think for the moment it should be plain to you that this is a good way of understanding what the difference between a useful preconception and a useless preconception brought to bear on an interpretative act might consist in.

我想大家现在都能够,从这个例子中明白,解读中有益先见,和无益先见,之间的区别了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

His clothes did not fit well. And he had a plain face, one which many thought was ugly.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

You'll notice I have the string with the number 1 MIT a string with MIT, and then it just a plain old number, not a string, again it didn't quite give me 3.3 for reasons we've talked before, a and now it in the list a.

你们可以看到这儿有个以字符串1,形式显示的数字1，1个字符串,还有一个非字符串形式的平常数字,结果并不是3。3，原因之前我们，已经讨论过了，还有一个在list中的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Native American tribes once grew vegetables like beans and corn throughout the Chesapeake coastal plain.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Calvin Coolidge was quiet and plain-looking.

VOA: special.2010.12.23

He explained his position many times in speeches,debates and letters, including this one written in eighteen fifty-eight: I have made it equally plain that I think the negro is included in the word "men" used in the Declaration of Independence.

VOA: special.2009.02.09