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单词 oversimplification
释义
oversimplification
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˌsɪm.plɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˌsɪm.plə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
theactionofdescribingorexplainingsomething in such asimpleway that it is nolongercorrectortrue:
Thebookwasfullof oversimplifications.
Oversimplification ofcomplexproblemsisdangerous.
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oversimplify
More examples
  • To say he is aracistis an oversimplification andsimplynottrue.
  • It's an oversimplificationsimplytoblamethegovernment.
  • To make agrossoversimplification, theyoungerteachersare the mostadventurous.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
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  • enlarge on/uponsomething
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  • expand onsomething
  • expansively
  • over-elaboration
  • overgeneralization
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(Definition ofoversimplificationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoversimplification

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Nevertheless, the new planning-control dichotomy he proposes, though a valuable advance, is itself anoversimplificationof what must be a multi-channel system.
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These elements may be reduced to two research paradigms - at risk ofoversimplification, the macro and the micro, or the quantitative and the qualitative respectively.
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It is a view based, in the first place, on a misleadingoversimplificationof the nuances and complexities of different political ideologies of the time.
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However, for the purposes of the present discussion, we will treat them as gender markers, recognizing that this is anoversimplification.
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The neat division into five discourses, itself somewhat resembling the second, analytical mode, provides clarity but runs the risk ofoversimplification.
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To just lump them under an umbrella label of ' borrowing ' or ' calquing ' is anoversimplificationwhich obscures the different possible historical scenarios for each case.
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It is important to analyze its foundations and to shed light on its own procedures, avoiding both metaphysical vagueness and physiologicaloversimplification.
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Thus, while music culture is flooded by the latest technology, the need for a defence againstoversimplificationhas grown.
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The traditional approach is anoversimplification, for two reasons.
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These issues have to be carefully studied in the future in order to avoid oversimplifications in the study of hospital utilization.
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The target article is aimed at a broad audience forcing someoversimplification.
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Such portrayals, however well-intentioned, run the risk ofoversimplification.
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Running the risk ofoversimplification, let us refer to the first view as the exogenous view of institutions and the latter as the endogenous view.
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At the risk ofoversimplification, we can distinguish between two major approaches among these recent developments.
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Here, an inversion of cause and effect and anoversimplificationcan be read.
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