When she asked why, he simply said, "Because they are ugly and scary, I don't like them."

当她问为什么时，他只是回答：“因为他们又丑陋，又吓人，我不喜欢。”

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He simply said it was very difficult for him to give a definition for that word.

他只是说要他给那个词下个定义是很困难的。

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When asked in a recent interview how he selects his projects, he simply said he follows his interests and that he likes to get things "on the shelf".

当在近期一档采访中被问及他是如何选择项目的，他很坦白地说他是追求自己的兴趣，喜欢拿掉被“束之高阁”的事情。

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The new Kansas-Nebraska bill, he said, simply recognized the fact that the Missouri compromise was dead.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

You can use the "it sounds like" pattern to very simply condense what he said,

你可以使用“it sounds like”句型，非常简单地概括一下他所说的内容，

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He said,simply: "Thank God."

VOA: special.2009.11.05

He simply said that -- I think they both had -- she had talked about and he had written about experiences that in some ways were similar.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Standing in the dock of Belfast Crown Court on Friday, he first confirmed his name to the court and then when the murder charge was put to him, he said simply "guilty".

BBC: The apartment block where a man's body was found

"Yeah, " he said simply, then stood and walked out of the losing locker room.

WSJ: Anthony's 28 points lead Knicks over Celts, 89-86