例句-1：Your school sounds more free and easy than ours.
听起来你的学校更随便些。
例句-2：There was a free and easy atmosphere at the meeting.
会议的气氛十分轻松。
在上面的2个例句中都用到了同一个词语：free and easy。这是一条形容词性习惯用语。Free 意为自由的，easy意为随和的，两者由and连接起来可以用于哪些情景，那么在这些情景下又是什么意思呢?
首先，这个短语可以用于表示一个人风度翩翩，举止行为潇洒自然。我们来看下面的3个例子：
1. With this kind of T-shirt, gentlemen will look even more free and easy.
男士身着这种T 恤衫，更显潇洒不凡。
2. I'm longing to be a free and easy woman fluttering in the wind.
我渴望做一个像风一般洒脱的女人。
3. She was a plump girl of eighteen or so, outspoken, with a free and easy manner, very much the modern school-girl.
她是一个胖胖的十八九岁左右的姑娘，举止大方，言语也洒脱，而且处处带着女学生的派头。
第二、Free and easy这个短语还可以用于表示一个人做事随便，做事随意，不甚谨慎、小心。我们来看下面的例子：
1. My brother was free and easy with his money and it was soon gone.
我哥用钱很大方，不久便把钱花光了。
2. Harry is such a nice friendly guy we were glad to hear he'd won a million dollars in the lottery. But he was so free and easy with the money it was all gone in a year.
Hanry是一个很好的人，他总是很友好。我们听到他通过买彩票而得到一百万美元奖金的时候，我们都很高兴。可是，他在钱的问题上实在很随便，一年内这笔钱就没有了。
3. Though she was outspoken, free and easy with everyone, no one ever gossiped about her behind her back.
虽然她对大家很随便爽快，可是大家没在背地里讲论过她。
第三、这个短语还用于表示生活舒适安逸，无拘无束，愉快，无忧无虑的。我们来看下面的3个例子：
1. She likes a free and easy life and never troubles over trifles.
她喜欢无忧无虑的生活，从不为小事烦恼。
2. The old lady leads a free and easy sort of life and never troubles much about anything.
老太太过着一种自由自在生活，从不为任何事情操心。
3. I wish I was a bachelor like you, Mark; you're free and easy and can do anything you want.
Mark，我希望我同你一样是个单身汉，你无拘无束，可以随心所欲。
第四、这个短语还可以用于表示人与人之间的关系不紧张，大家相处很随和，不拘于礼节。我们来看下面的3个例子：
1. Alice is very free and easy when she's with her friends.
Alice和朋友们在一起总是无拘无束的。
2. Don't worry about formality at my parents' house —— it's always very free and easy there.
在我父母家不必讲究礼节-那里总是个无拘无束的地方。
3. The teacher was free and easy with his students.
那位老师和他的学生彼此之间无拘无束。
第五、Free and easy作为名词，它还有在酒吧间的聚会，低级的音乐厅，酒吧间和旅馆的意思。
好，亲爱的朋友们，今天的这招说随便很简单记忆，非常熟悉的2个单词连用，free and easy。
我们在为人上要free and easy，自然我们朋友就多，生活就有乐趣。但是我们在对待工作和学习上，生活态度、作风上不能太free and easy，要more careful，否则会遭来非议，搅乱我们的心情。朋友们，您说呢?
我们今天的学习就到这里，记住下回再来接招哦。我们下回再见。
