| 释义 |
overˈsimplify, v.
[over- 27.]
trans. To render excessively or delusively simple; to explain in simplistic terms. Also absol. Hence overˈsimplified ppl. a.; overˈsimplifying vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also overˈsimplifier, one who oversimplifies.
1934Webster, Oversimplify. 1936Mind XLV. 222 Preformation..errs by over-simplifying the problem. 1940Amer. Speech XV. 67 The old fallacy of the over⁓simplifiers, searching for ‘the’ cause where there usually is a complex of causes, has also bedeviled philology. 1942Scrutiny X. iv. 360 The difference cannot be explained simply by saying that the comic parts of Chuzzlewit are good and the ‘serious’ or ‘sentimental’ parts bad, because that is an over-simplifying of the case. 1946Sun (Baltimore) 11 Mar. 10/3 (heading) It is easy to oversimplify about the Russians. 1946J. S. Huxley Unesco ii. 47 In somewhat over-simplified terms. 1953D. F. Pocock tr. Durkheim's Sociol. & Philos. iii. 74 This..would be preferable in our schools to the over-simplified..explanations with which we too often deceive the curiosity of youth. 1963Times 21 Jan. 9/2 These two stubborn, oversimplifying old men. 1965C. Walsh in J. Gibb Light on C. S. Lewis 114 He berated Lewis as an oversimplifier. 1975R. Browning Emperor Julian i. 27 An oversimplified summary of results must suffice. 1976Listener 28 Oct. 550/1 Magnus Pyke..has been accused..of ‘popularising’ his subject, of oversimplifying. |