使……简化
使……通俗易懂
降低……的难度
使……简化
使……通俗易懂
降低……的难度
verb
transitive verb
to lower the level of difficulty and the intellectual content of (something, such as a textbook)also: to lower the general level of intelligence in
the dumbing down of society
verb
transitive verb
to lower the level of difficulty and the intellectual content of (something, such as a textbook)also: to lower the general level of intelligence in
the dumbing down of society
The first known use of dumb down was in 1933
1 Whoever has decided to dumb down America has done a really good job.
2 Business Column: Red-state efforts to dumb down their universities will provoke a brain drainMay 2, 2023GOP legislators in Wisconsin held hostage $800 million in funding for the state university and blocked all staff pay raises unless the university cut back DEI programs.
3 But Jason didn’t dumb down any of his writing.
4 His knack for skewering Broadway’s smash hits and for commenting on its craven tendencies to dumb down for and rip off its customers is unparalleled.
5 Angela Merkel, chancellor when the pandemic started, holds a doctorate in quantum chemistry and refused to dumb down science while addressing the public.
6 Yet the Biden Administration is mounting a regulatory assault on business, while progressives dumb down math and science with a woke curriculum.
7 Often imitated, never duplicated, Madden had an uncanny ability to dumb down the game of football and all its nuances.
8 In fact, the participants are so knowledgeable and articulate, and Stewart so determined not to dumb down their messages, that these might turn out to be the most consistently engaging segments of the show.
9 BR: There's a lot has been done to dumb down the population.
比尔: 有很多事情被做,来简化(dumbdown)人口.