| 词汇 | dumbing-down |
| 释义 | dumbing-down noun[ U ] informaldisapprovinguk /ˌdʌm.ɪŋˈdaʊn/ us /ˌdʌm.ɪŋˈdaʊn/ the act of making something simpler and easier for people to understand, especially in order to make it more popular: （尤指为了更加普及而）简化，通俗化 the dumbing-down of television电视的普及 Elaborating, specifying and simplifying abstract anti-reductionism anti-reductionist broad brush broaden enlarge on/upon something expand expand on something expansively expansiveness overgeneralization overgeneralize oversimplification oversimplify particularization spec specification specificity specify split hairsidiom Examples of dumbing-downdumbing-down Does he agree that that is less a case of dumbing-down than dumbing-out? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is yet another sign that the whole system is geared towards a mass dumbing-down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The dumbing-down of science to produce easily assimilated wacky, breakthrough or scare stories is criticised. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, at various points in the novel the narrator portrays this dumbing-down as a silly and unnecessary self-denial that is not very satisfying. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These critics also blamed labour's involvement in dumbing-down the campaign, which was seen as the trade unions doing anything to achieve power. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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