dumb down

英 [dʌm daʊn]

美 [dʌm daʊn]

降低…的理解难度; 减少…的专业内容

双语例句

• BR: There's a lot that has been done to dumb down the population.
  比尔：有很多事情被做，来简化（dumbdown）人口。
• If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
  如果有人笨到要花100万美元为我拍张照片，我当然不会笨到拒绝他。
• You don't have to dumb it down for us, doctor.
  医生你不需要画出来。
• The catch was that state education officials were able to dumb down the tests so that schools which ought to have earned a "failing" grade did not do so.
  各州教育官员就能借此贬低考试的参考价值，使得该得“失败”级别的学校无法将其校内考试列为参考指标。
• Dr Bradshaw and Prof Morris B Holbrook of Columbia University examined the phenomenon and found that retailers often dumb down the music played in shops to relax customers, meaning it is easier to control their behaviour.
  布拉德肖博士和哥伦比亚大学的莫里斯•B•霍尔布鲁克教授仔细观察了这一现象后发现，零售商经常会把店里播放的音乐通俗化来让顾客放松，这意味着能更容易控制他们的行为。
• But executives believe News Corp will be able to fend off the usual anti-Murdoch criticisms-that he slants his media coverage to the right and tends to "dumb down" his publications.
  但新闻集团高管们相信，新闻集团将能够抵挡这些常见的倒默批评。这些批评称，默多克促使其媒体报道走上右倾道路，并倾向于使他的出版物低级化。
• His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
  他看守的人是瞎眼的，都没有知识，都是哑吧狗，不能叫唤。但知作梦，躺卧，贪睡。
• She wanted me to dumb myself down.
  她想让我装得笨一些。
• But you don't have to dumb yourself down to get guys to like you.
  但没必要为了讨男生的欢心，而荒废学业。
• Buy it up dumb it down.
  把它全买下并使其沉寂。