她母亲是个朴实的妇女.Her mother is a homely woman.时代变了,因此, 用朴实的隐喻来讲, 我们必须“适应环境”.Times are changed and we must, to use the homely metaphor, cut our coat according to our cloth.这本书阐述的是简单朴实的哲学。The book is simple homespun philosophy....

“朴实的”的英语可以翻译为：artless，earthy，unadorned ...