| 词汇 | trivialize |
| 释义 | trivialize verb[ T ] disapproving(UK usuallytrivialise)uk /ˈtrɪv.i.ə.laɪz/ us /ˈtrɪv.i.ə.laɪz/ to make something seem less important than it really is: 使显得不重要 I don't want to trivialize the problem, but I do think there are more important matters to discuss.我并不是要贬低这个问题的重要性，我确实认为有更重要的事情需要讨论。 Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish cartoonishly catastrophize fulsome go overboardidiom grandiloquent inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make little of somethingidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization OTT protest too muchidiom underplay underrate trivialize | American Dictionarytrivialize verb[ T ] us/ˈtrɪv·i·əˌlɑɪz/ to make something unusual seem ordinary or unimportant: My boss tends to take good ideas and trivialize them. Examples of trivializetrivialize The popular label "designer baby" effectively trivializes what is at stake in such decisions. The argument, if sustained, trivializes the methodology and research program. This process results not merely in caricaturing the opposition but in trivializing the past science. To simplify the discussion, we wish to trivialize boundary conditions, so suppose that u is defined on the unit square with periodic boundary conditions. There is no attempt in my paper to trivialize any scholar's position. Unfortunately, this particular construal, though perhaps initially attractive, ultimately trivializes the fundamental issue at stake. Given the centrality of children to a successful marriage and to women's status, elders trivialized the sheltering of runaway, childless wives. It trivializes suffering not by an unconnected but overpowering good, although the good is overpowering. My point is not to trivialize these concerns, but to argue that they are unlikely to halt the development of cosmetic neurology. Whigs were also less likely to masculinize women or trivialize their partisan motivations. Problems may also be trivialized by older people themselves. The research university encourages and accommodates wars of truth but neutralizes (trivializes?) them within a contained and static institutional framework. Then, too, and even when trivialized, civil authority had no rhetorical counter to a minister who questioned the world through the guiding hand of providence. But the revealed-preference theorist has now trivialized game theory. The risk of this complex process being trivialized or dismissed is great, especially when there is a lack of understanding of the issues involved. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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