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It could easily be another year before the economy starts to show some improvement.
很可能再过一年经济才会开始有所好转。
He had always cried very easily.
他总是动不动就哭。
词根:easy
1. easily ad 舒适的 ; 顺利地 ; 容易地轻易地 ; 恬静的
2. Feeds self easily with fingers 非常自如用手指进食 ; 十分自若用手指进食
3. Not Easily Broken 难以破解 ; 难于破解 ; 此情不渝 ; 难以解决
4. readily-easily 容易地 ; 轻易地
5. come easily 容易
6. easily damaged parts 易损件 ; 易损件系列
7. Easily understood 显而易见 ; 通俗易懂
8. Not easily 不轻易 ; 不轻松
1. An incident like that might very easily lose him his seat.
象这样一件倒霉事很可能会使他丢掉他的议席.《辞典例句》
2. He doesn't scare easily.
他不轻易害怕。《牛津词典》
3. The compression of the wood is easily achieved.
木材压缩容易实现。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4. You can easily change the PATH variable.
你能容易地改变路径变数.《期刊摘选》
5. He's not easily parted from his cash.
叫他拿出现钱不大容易.《简明英汉词典》
6. I easily guessed your meaning.
我很容易地猜出了你的意思.《辞典例句》
7. I can't easily give an answer to your question.
你的问题我难以回答。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
8. The cagey fox could not be easily trapped by the farmer.
那只狡猾的狐狸不会轻易落入农夫的陷阱.《简明英汉词典》
9. The car seat belt slotted into place easily.
那个汽车安全带很容易就扣好了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
10. The area can easily be worked out if you know the length and the breadth.
如果你知道长度与宽度,面积很容易计算出来.《简明英汉词典》
11. Some months ago I suggested here that gold could easily become the next bubble.
几个月前,我在专栏中暗示黄金很可能会成为下一个泡沫.《期刊摘选》
12. ...an ancient barn that is easily the length of two tennis courts.
很可能有两个网球场那么长的一个古代畜棚《柯林斯高阶英语词典》
13. I can visualize his face easily.
我能容易地想象出他的容貌来.《期刊摘选》
14. Indifference, apathy or resistance , however, may stand in the way.
但在过程中可能遇到漠不关己的冷淡反应, 甚或抵抗.《期刊摘选》
15. Water is easily broken down into hydrogen and oxygen.
水能迅速地分解氢氧二元素.《期刊摘选》
16. The liquid strained easily.
这种液体容易过滤.《简明英汉词典》
17. He has made a good recovery but still tires easily.
他已康复得不错,但仍然容易感到疲劳。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
18. A cassette tape recorder can easily record sound on and play sound back from tape.
盒式录音机可以很容易地用磁带录音和放音.《简明英汉词典》
19. Chances [ The chances ] are that we will win easily.
我们很可能会轻易取胜.《现代英汉综合大词典》
20. Don't talk to her ─ she's very easily distracted.
不要同她讲话——她的注意力很容易分散。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
21. You can easily check which page style is applied it is shown on the status bar.
您会很容易地在状态栏找到当前页面使用的样式名称.《期刊摘选》
22. You can easily calculate the memory space a bitmap of this size will require.
您能容易地计算这大小位图将要求的存储量.《期刊摘选》
23. The politics of China's property market could easily become more treacherous.
中国房地产市场的政治斗争很可能会变得更加险恶.《期刊摘选》
24. It's easily the best play I've seen this year.
这无疑是我今年看过的最好的一出戏。《牛津词典》
25. The sequence of actions is broken into individual steps and can be easily changed.
行动顺序是分解成个别的步骤和可以很容易地改变.《期刊摘选》
26. All the relevant records are easily available ready to hand.
所有相关记录都在手边,用起来很方便。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
27. In Kota Kinabalu City, we can easily find spots where it can damage ourgarden city.
在亚庇市, 我们可以很容易地看到损坏市容的情景.《期刊摘选》
28. Responsibilities are not sloughed off so easily.
责任不是那么容易推卸的.《简明英汉词典》
29. It could easily be another year before the economy starts to show some improvement.
很可能还要再等一年经济才会开始出现好转。《柯林斯例句》
30. John has got his own car, which gets him about all over Europe easily.
约翰有了自己的车, 这使得他能够很容易地游遍全欧洲.《期刊摘选》
31. You can easily die of thirst.
你很可能会渴死.《期刊摘选》
32. If he improved his IT skills, he'd easily get a job.
他如果提高了自己的信息技术技能,就会容易找到工作。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
33. They have nightmares, they startle easily.
他们做噩梦,经常从梦中惊醒。《柯林斯高阶英语词典》
34. Man has rapidly been exhausting some of the most easily harnessed forms of cultural energy.
人类正在迅速地耗尽某些最易利用的人工能源形式.《辞典例句》
35. Sandstone cuts easily.
沙岩容易切割。《牛津词典》
36. Rubbish can easily be separated and sorted into plastics, glass and paper.
垃圾很容易分开并归入塑料、玻璃和纸三类。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
37. Searching algorithm can be easily found in Petri net model.
能够容易地把模型和搜索算法结合在一起.《期刊摘选》
38. Be careful what you say ─ he's easily provoked.
说话要小心,他这个人一惹就火儿。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
39. The disease spreads easily.
这种疾病容易传播。《牛津词典》
40. She doesn't give up easily.
她决不轻易认输。《牛津词典》
41. They were easily shocked in those days.
他们那时候容易被激怒。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
42. Overinflated tyres burst more easily.
充气过量的轮胎更容易爆裂。《牛津词典》
43. Dennis made friends easily.
丹尼斯容易交上朋友。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
44. The fabric is very fine or frays easily.
这种布料很细,或者说是容易磨损。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
45. Don't talk to her—she's very easily distracted.
不要同她讲话—她的注意力很容易分散。《牛津词典》
46. He speaks the language so well he could easily pass for a German.
他德语讲得好极了,很容易被当成德国人。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
47. Why I am not in favour of it can easily be answered.
我为什么不支持它的原因能容易地回答.《期刊摘选》
48. The male bird is easily distinguishable from the female.
这种鸟很容易辨认雌雄。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
49. People can come and go easily between Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
人们可以很容易地来往于深圳和香港.《期刊摘选》
50. The house is easily identifiable by the large tree outside.
这房子很容易从外面的这棵大树辨认出来。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
51. These potatoes peel easily.
这些土豆很容易去皮.《现代汉英综合大词典》
52. Gas ignites very easily.
汽油易燃。《牛津词典》
53. Let's start with the more easily addressable issues.
我们先从较容易处理的问题着手。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
54. The sudden increase in sales is easily explicable.
销售额的突然增加是很容易理解的.《简明英汉词典》
55. Users can easily move files between PCs connected by local area networks or the internet.
用户可在由局域网或因特网连接的个人计算机之间很容易地传递文件。《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
56. His resignation has created a vacuum which cannot easily be filled.
他的引退造成了难以填补的空白。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
57. He's easily distracted.
他注意力很容易分散。《牛津词典》
58. Global ecological efforts can easily be at odds with local ecologies.
全球性生态保护工作很可能会和地方生态系统存在矛盾。《柯林斯例句》
59. The immaculate is easily sullied.
皎皎者易污.《现代汉英综合大词典》
60. Yes, it might easily have caused a disaster to the entire neighborhood!
可不, 那就很可能给整个街区带来大的灾难了.《地道口语脱口SHOW 高中升学篇》
61. He easily outpaced the other runners.
他轻而易举地超过了其他赛跑选手。《牛津词典》
62. Also you can find another driver easily because you are always a new car.
并且,因为您总是一辆新的汽车,您能容易地找到另一个司机.《期刊摘选》
63. This can easily lead to worsening trade friction.
这很可能导致贸易摩擦加剧.《期刊摘选》
64. He is easily discouraged by difficulties and obstacles.
他遇到困难和障碍很容易气馁.《现代汉英综合大词典》
65. This material can be cut and machined easily.
这种材料很容易用机器切割并加工成型。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
66. You can easily fake up an excuse to avoid going out with him.
你可以很容易地编造一个借口而不与他一同外出.《简明英汉词典》
67. He has the gift of making friends easily.
他天生善交朋友。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
68. I don't go brown very easily.
我不容易晒黑。《牛津词典》
69. Provide registrations to all documents, which are easily located whereabouts at any time.
为所有的文件注册,从而当需要这些文件时, 它们能被非常容易地找到.《期刊摘选》
70. The situation might all too easily have become a disaster.
这形势本来是很可能成为一场大灾难的。《牛津词典》
71. With word processing you can easily format your document By pressing one or two keys.
用文字处理,你只要按一两个键就可以很容易地把文件的格式定好.《期刊摘选》
72. Her house is easily picked out from the rest; it has a large black gate.
她的住宅很容易和其他的区别开来, 有一个黑色的大门.《简明英汉词典》
73. Bananas are easily digestible.
香蕉易于消化。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
74. A : So a pattern cutter can read a sketch easily, right ?
那样裁剪师就可以很容易地读懂图纸了, 是 吗 ?《期刊摘选》
75. This situation is easily remedied.
这种情形易于补救。《牛津词典》
76. The horse cleared the fence easily.
那匹马轻松地跃过了栅栏。《牛津词典》
77. You can easily drag a window to change its size and location with the mouse.
使用鼠标,你可以很容易地拖动窗口以改变窗口的大小和位置.《期刊摘选》
78. We ought to channel this street so that water can flow away easily.
我们应该给这条街开辟水道,以便水能畅通地流走.《现代英汉综合大词典》
79. This can be seen easily with the benefit of slow motion video playback.
借助于慢镜头的回放,可以很容易地看清楚这个过程。《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
80. Such arguments are not easily countered.
这种论点不易反驳。《牛津词典》
81. These plates chip easily.
这些盘子容易破损。《牛津词典》
82. General users can easily master a level language and make programs in it.
一般用户也能很容易地掌握一种高级语言,并可以用它来编制程序.《期刊摘选》
83. I get bored easily.
我易生厌倦。《牛津词典》
84. So the audience can easily tell what kind of character an actor is performing.
如此听众能容易地告诉什么类型的一个演员正在操作的个性.《期刊摘选》
85. I was annoyed with myself for giving in so easily.
我气我自己那么轻易就让步了。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
86. He's too easily led.
他太容易受人左右了。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
87. It is becoming increasingly clear that this problem will not be easily solved.
越来越明显的是,这个问题不会轻易解决。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
88. I can easily finish it tonight.
我今晚能毫不费力地把它完成。《牛津词典》
89. I shall easily convince you of his innocence.
我能很容易地使你相信他无罪.《期刊摘选》
90. How can we produce change easily and quickly than ever before?
我们如何比以前更容易更迅速地改变自己?《期刊摘选》
91. Chris is not easily roused.
克里斯不容易激动。《牛津词典》
92. The information was not easily classifiable.
此信息不易分类。《牛津词典》
93. The bad news is that when consumers figure that out, they could easily move.
坏消息是,当消费者明白这一事实后, 他们很可能会转向别处.《期刊摘选》
94. Under such circumstances, they may have emotional troubles and have sex easily with someone.
在这种情况下, 她们很可能会出现一些感情问题,而且容易与他人发生性关系.《期刊摘选》
95. Iron gathers rust easily.
铁容易生锈.《现代汉英综合大词典》
96. She was not going to give up her hard-won freedom so easily.
她不会这么轻易地放弃得来不易的自由。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
97. The various types of owl are easily confusable with one another.
各种猫头鹰之间很容易弄混。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
98. A diligent teacher can often easily notice plagiarism.
勤奋的老师常常能很容易地发现剽窃行为.《期刊摘选》
99. It was first time that I found life could so easily pass away.
第一次是,我发现了生活能那么容易地逝世.《期刊摘选》
100. This old man's tooth draw easily.
这位老人的牙很容易拔.《现代英汉综合大词典》
101. She's not easily frightened.
她不是轻易能吓倒的。《牛津词典》
102. Elderly people easily become socially isolated.
上了年纪的人很容易变得与社会隔绝。《牛津词典》
103. He had always cried very easily...
他总是动不动就哭鼻子。《柯林斯高阶英语词典》
104. He could picture all too easily the consequences of being caught.
他能很容易地想像被抓住的后果.《简明英汉词典》
105. This standard is easily attainable by most students.
这个标准大多数学生都容易达到。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
106. The students can easily understand it if the teacher at ( or points to ) some two students.
该学生可以容易地懂它如果这个老师检查 ( 或指向 ) 一些二学生.《期刊摘选》
107. She believed herself to be very seductive, so she was very quickly and easily seduced.
她自信很能引诱人, 所以极快、极容易地给人引诱了.《期刊摘选》
108. He might easily have been seen by someone who lived nearby.
住在附近的人很可能有谁见过他。《柯林斯例句》
109. Old bones break easily.
老骨头容易骨折。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
110. Database administrators can more easily troubleshoot and track down the origin of data corruption.
数据库管理员可以更容易地诊断和追踪的起源,数据损坏.《期刊摘选》
111. Consensus politics could easily come back into fashion.
共识政治很可能再度兴起。《柯林斯例句》
112. He could easily vault the wall.
他可以轻而易举地跃过这堵墙。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
113. She knew from past experience that Ann would not give up easily.
她凭以往的经验知道安是不会轻易放弃的。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
114. Scientists can easily genetically alter adult cells.
科学家能很容易地利用遗传方法改变成体细胞.《期刊摘选》
115. The Great Migration could easily have been made up entirely of this group and their families.
大迁徙很可能是由这个群体的全部及其家庭所组成.《期刊摘选》
116. The museum is easily accessible by car.
开车可以方便地到达博物馆。《牛津词典》
117. You can easily observe the birds when sitting in a duck blind.
躲在黑暗的隐蔽处,你可以很容易地观察鸟类.《期刊摘选》
118. A woman of her ability will easily find a job.
有她那样才能的女性找工作不难。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
119. This material frays easily.
这布料容易磨损。《牛津词典》
120. Strawberries bruise easily.
草莓容易损伤。《牛津词典》
121. He's so susceptible that she easily gained his affection.
他易受感情影响,所以她很轻易地就得到了他的爱.《简明英汉词典》
122. Both her children did jigsaw puzzles easily.
她的两个孩子玩拼图游戏都很轻松。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
123. Are you sure you locked the gate? You could easily have forgotten.
你肯定锁上大门了吗?你很可能是忘了。《牛津词典》
124. It could easily full to the floor and be swept up with the dust.
它很容易地掉到地板上与垃圾一起扫掉.《辞典例句》
1. You can be--it can be secured easily and it can be made easily in a microwave or things like that, that's all true. Any other ideas, yes?
你可以,垃圾食品保存方便而且,也能直接放在微波炉里或类似的手法烹调,这都是原因,还有其他的原因吗关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
2. And because it's dissolved, it passes more easily across gills and into digestive systems.
CNN: We are all Gulf victims now
3. With 435 million iTunes accounts, Apple could easily extend Passbook into a mobile payment application.
FORBES: iPhone 5 Won't Help 4G Market Soar
4. There's still substantial insurance risk because the-- it could easily be only 15% or it could be 25% of the policies that end up paying.
这其中仍然存在一定的保险风险...,最后可能只有15%需要赔付,或者25%需要赔付金融市场课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
5. My mother always told me, if you study hard, the answers should be right under your nose or easily seen.
VOA : special.2009.09.13
6. In a 20-knot breeze, the steel-hulled yacht can easily accelerate past 14 knots, or 16mph.
FORBES: Magazine Article
7. In this instance Paulson was correct, but the reverse could have just as easily occurred.
FORBES: Demystifying The Naively Demonized Symbol That Is Wall Street
8. We find ourselves easily intimidated by a list of famous names and end up not thinking for ourselves.
我们才惊觉自己很容易受到盛名的威吓,结果忘记为我们自己多想想。政治哲学导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
9. At first, nineteen-year-old Kevin Schumann easily avoided large, inflatable dolls thrown in front of the car to represent children.
VOA : special.2010.07.01
10. Today, it can just as easily reference hundreds of peers, potential crushes or even random strangers.
CNN: Why parents should educate their kids about tech
11. It has been run as a small luxury hotel, but could easily be a private residence.
FORBES: Provencal Retreat
12. Growth in America, still the company's biggest market, was buoyant, but easily outpaced in China.
ECONOMIST: A glamorous British success story (sort of)
13. If they do, the state government would surely collapse, precipitating early elections, which Congress could easily lose.
ECONOMIST: Attempts to satisfy demands for local autonomy backfire
14. At 5.5km long it is easily seen on foot, with a tree-lined walkway along the water.
BBC: Exploring Bangkoks canals
15. So, it's getting more interesting but we'll soon see that things don't always compile as easily as this command suggests.
更有意思了,但我们很快就会发现,并不是所有的编译都,像这条命令这么简单。计算机科学课程节选 : 哈佛公开课
16. Easily accessible by subway, the 7, 500-seat MCU Park overlooks the Atlantic Ocean and Coney Island amusement park.
BBC: Baseball with a view in NYC
17. Her grandmother told the newspaper that she had "a heart of gold, " but was easily influenced by others.
BBC: US woman Nicole Mansfield killed fighting in Syria
18. Results show he easily cleared the benchmark of 1, 144 delegates to secure the nomination.
BBC: Mitt Romney clinches nomination in Texas primary
19. Bananas are easily digestible.
香蕉很容易消化。
20. It's great for doing things with vectors and matrices and things that are easily captured in that framework.
它用于在矩阵、载体和很容易,从框架中获得的事情中做事情很棒。计算机科学及编程导论课程节选 : 麻省理工公开课
21. Some artists like this process because they can draw on the metal as easily as if they were using a writing pen.
VOA : special.2009.09.02
22. This all works easily because Salesforce.com has become the central repository of marketing-related data.
FORBES: Magazine Article
23. Those kinds of information are not easily accessible by following links or using the traditional search engine technology.
通过跟踪链接,或者传统搜索技术,是无法轻易获取的这些信息的。
24. And that is something that the young people organizing in community after community cannot easily tolerate.
CNN: Why 'All lives matter' misses the point
25. It allows companies to more easily manage remote wireless devices including M2M applications, handsets and tablets.
ENGADGET: Sprint brings Data Link and Static IP to its LTE network
26. So woven curtains hung from wooden frames that could easily be assembled and disassembled.
编织窗帘从木框上垂下来,非常容易拆卸和组装。旧约导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
27. He says the bacteria can also float around in the air and be easily pulled into the lungs.
VOA : special.2009.10.13
28. This could happen if Japan's sovereign-debt rating falls another notch, which given the country's worsening finances could easily happen.
ECONOMIST: Japan's banks
29. Cacao trees grown on farms are much more easily threatened by disease and insects than wild trees are.
VOA : special.2010.02.17
30. Being caught off guard so easily was very unbecoming for such a seasoned veteran.
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31. Silk spots easily.
丝绸容易脏。
32. These conglomerates can easily marshal a global sales force to land and support new customers.
FORBES: Choreographer of the Assembly Line
33. She is easily frightened. For example, she is too chicken-livered to walk down a dark street alone at night.
VOA : special.2010.06.13
34. Wall Street Meat is a page-turner, easily consumed in one New York-to-San Francisco plane ride.
FORBES: Magazine Article
35. In other words, you can win people to your side more easily with gentle persuasion than by hostile actions.
VOA : special.2009.08.30
36. But I think we can imagine some part of it more easily than the other.
但我们至少能想象其中一部分内容,因为这要比其它的简单得多古希腊历史简介课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
37. And, we could easily calculate the energies.
我们就能很容易的算出能量。固态化学导论课程节选 : 麻省理工公开课
38. So much so that "any minor change in what you usually consume is easily noted, " he says.
BBC: The recipe rage problem
39. Moulded plastic is almost indestructible, but scuffs easily.
模压塑料几乎不会坏掉,但很容易磨损。
40. But it could also be that it wasn't as easily diagnosed then.
这也同样有可能因为,在那个年代这种病不容易诊断出来生物医学工程探索课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
41. They submit their data about their people, their users to us, so Baidu users can easily find information related to that.
校内网将用户数据提交给我们,这样,百度的用户就能够轻松,搜索到相关信息。
42. He is in his sixties, and he speaks with old-world charm and an easily-shared enthusiasm for his town.
BBC: Sailing in Croatia
43. I know you can say it easily. I know you can speak well and write well in English. Keep it up!
相信你很快就能掌握的。你的口语跟写作都会很棒的。再接再厉!SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : I'd better 课堂
44. But the fraud could not be proved because of an absence of easily-accessible data.
BBC: Pakistan hopes for 'cleanest' elections in history
45. He talked about ways that tribes could more easily develop clean energy such as solar power and wind energy.
VOA : special.2009.11.13
46. Over the years, big oil and gas companies recovered much of the easily reached supplies of gas in America.
VOA : special.2009.10.23
47. We can easily imagine a world in which I don't have the last name Kagan or perhaps to switch it around, Shelly's not my name.
我们可以容易地想象一个世界里,我不姓卡根或者,反过来,我不叫薛立死亡课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
48. Now anyone can easily keep a safe copy of their files in another location.
ENGADGET: Pogoplug now streaming to Xbox 360 and PS3, handling offsite backups
49. One can easily debate the relative merits of either path, but the point is largely moot.
FORBES: Five Steps Toward Fixing the Hole In Your Retirement Plan
50. He makes friends easily.
他很容易交到朋友。
51. She says the good news in the study is that some species of mangrove can be reforested relatively easily.
VOA : special.2010.04.20
52. As costs fall, local governments will find more intensive monitoring to be easily affordable.
FORBES: Spotting Evil
53. He quickly complicates our identification of Orion with Satan, which wasn't arrived at that easily to begin with.
他迅速地把猎户的形象和撒旦混在一起,这并不是简单就能应付得来的。弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
54. She won easily. She was the first woman and first black to be elected to Congress to represent Texas.
VOA : special.2010.05.09
55. The 28% increase in cost per train kilometer was easily offset by the 78% increase in revenues.
FORBES: On the Right Track
56. Yet an escalating conflict could easily lead to shifting war aims and mission creep.
CNN: Can U.S. help Gulf shield itself against Iran?
57. This was why Christianity and other things were able to spread so easily, why Paul was able to travel around the empire.
所以基督教及其他信息,能传播地如此迅速,所以保罗能够周游帝国。新约课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
58. We were looking at structuring the schedule easily 2 to 3 months in advance.
我们会提前两到三个月,考虑日程的安排。国际座谈会课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
59. For if McClellan discovered how few men were left behind, he could smash through easily and capture the city.
VOA : special.2009.09.17
60. And some people question whether it is wise to rebuild in an area that could easily flood again.
VOA : special.2010.01.22
61. We can too easily imagine the flickering skin, the snorting and pawing, the frantic runs at the fence.
BBC: Missing pieces in Utah
62. Herculean tasks they come and go so easily, When her rods and her cones play.
NPR: BPP Jukebox: Blues Traveler
63. It could not produce as much military equipment, and it could not transport supplies as easily as the North could.
VOA : special.2009.08.27
64. It bends easily.
它很容易弯曲。
65. "I can easily imagine that something like that could have happened, " said Mr Cluley.
BBC: Facebook blames bug for Zuckerberg 'hacking'