| 单词 | conflate |
| 释义 | conflate From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishconflatecon‧flate /kənˈfleɪt/ verb [transitive] formalMIXto combine two or more things to form a single new thingHe conflates two images from Kipling’s short stories in the film. —conflation /-ˈfleɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusconflate• The urban crisis or the inner city problem conflates a number of quite different economic, political and social issues.• There are no composite characters or conflated events in this story.• This same structure is conflated in the novel with Lacan's model of the constitution of subjectivity.• The word typically conflates the causes of stress with the phenomenon of stress.• He takes Adam Smith to task for conflating the division of labour in society with the division within the enterprise.• A feature of all these quotes is that they conflate the social and the personal.• Linguists belonging to the Prague School by and large conflate the two structures and combine them in the same description.Origin conflate (1400-1500) Latin past participle of conflare “to blow together, join”, from com- ( → COM-) + flare “to blow” |
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