in plain terms

基本解释

Can you sum up the central idea of this ancient poem in plain terms?
你能用简明的语言概括这首古诗的中心思想吗？
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But to explain it in plain terms would serve no purpose other than to make me look insane to people who have no correlating inner experience.
但是如果让我用简单的字眼进行解释，则不会有任何作用，除了让没有相关内心经历的人们觉得我很疯狂以外。
In plain terms this means that all the new language features can be used with existing v2.0 projects (due to the multitargeting feature mentioned above)!
简单说来，这就意味着所有的新的语言功能，可被用于现有的2.0版项目（由于上述所提到的multitargeting功能）中。
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What's important in My Fair Lady is to - repeat the repetitiousness of verse-- the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain -in terms of the tautology of the plot.
重要的是窈窕淑女中,这种韵律的加强-,“西班牙之雨大多洒落于平原之上“,韵律的反复加强了情节。
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Does that mean you're going to come out of the closet and tell us in plain terms that you made a mistake at the 2008 election?
ECONOMIST: Letters
What really matters to Western firms is consumer spending in plain dollar terms.
ECONOMIST: The balance of economic power
And America will only really be eclipsed when China's GDP outstrips it in plain dollar terms, converted at market exchange rates.
ECONOMIST: When will China overtake America?