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simple
curriculum vitae
simply
to simplify
summary
to be abbreviated to
brief
concise
terse
simple and crude
simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字|繁体字[fan2 ti3 zi4]
concise
Notice where 简 sits in each complete thought.
His story was pretty simple.
Source: Tatoeba #343292 · CC BY 2.0 FRI don't give a damn about my CV.
Source: Tatoeba #504940 · CC BY 2.0 FRThe weather is so hot, I just don't want to go out.
Source: Tatoeba #2564382 · CC BY 2.0 FREither one is fine, but the former is more concise.
Source: Tatoeba #3480115 · CC BY 2.0 FRWe want to make a simple change.
Source: Tatoeba #13941588 · CC BY 2.0 FRDefinitions and traditional forms are compiled from Make Me a Hanzi, HSK curriculum data, and CC-CEDICT. Sourced example sentences link to Tatoeba; editorial examples are labeled separately. Review data sources and licenses.