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

• 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。
• Girlfriends can tell when something's bothering you. And when you don't explain what it is no matter how dumb you might think it sounds we assume we're the something that's bringing you down.
  女朋友通常都能感觉到有事情烦扰着你，不论你多么的不想说话，如果你不去解释，我们就会以为是我们让你感到厌烦。
• She wanted me to dumb myself down.
  她想让我装得笨一些。
• 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。
• You don't have to dumb it down for us, doctor.
  医生你不需要画出来。
• Can't spell? Is that another "fighter are dumb" crack? That's it, we're going down a level.
  学不会拼写？这又是个“战士都是蠢蛋”的笑话吗？不管如何，我们得到下一层去。
• 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。
• Buy it up dumb it down.
  把它全买下并使其沉寂。
• 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。
• 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。