资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Facile \Fac"ile\a. [L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or
   made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F.
   facile. Srr {Fact}, and cf. {Faculty}.]
   1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable
      or attainable with little labor.

            Order . . . will render the work facile and
            delightful.                           --Evelyn.

   2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable;
      readily mastered.

            The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
                                                  --Milton.

   3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty,
      austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.

            I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --B.
                                                  Jonson.

   4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a
      fault; pliant; flexible.

            Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost
            Paradise, deceived by me.             --Milton.

            This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so
            facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a
            keeper on the king's highway.         --Prof.
                                                  Wilson.

   5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he
      wields a facile pen. -- {Fac"ile-ly}, adv. --
      {Fac"ile*ness}, n.