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单词 trivialize
释义
trivialize
verb[T]
disapproving(UKusuallytrivialise)
uk
/ˈtrɪv.i.ə.laɪz/us
/ˈtrɪv.i.ə.laɪz/
to make somethingseemlessimportantthan it really is:
使显得不重要
I don'twantto trivialize theproblem, but I dothinkthere are moreimportantmatterstodiscuss.我并不是要贬低这个问题的重要性，我确实认为有更重要的事情需要讨论。
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(Definition oftrivializefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

trivialize| American Dictionary

trivialize
verb[T]
us
/ˈtrɪv·i·əˌlɑɪz/
to make somethingunusualseemordinaryorunimportant:
Mybosstendsto take goodideasand trivialize them.
(Definition oftrivializefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftrivialize

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The popular label "designer baby" effectively trivializes what is at stake in such decisions.
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The argument, if sustained, trivializes the methodology and research program.
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This process results not merely in caricaturing the opposition but in trivializing the past science.
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To simplify the discussion, we wish totrivializeboundary conditions, so suppose that u is defined on the unit square with periodic boundary conditions.
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There is no attempt in my paper totrivializeany scholar's position.
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Unfortunately, this particular construal, though perhaps initially attractive, ultimately trivializes the fundamental issue at stake.
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Given the centrality of children to a successful marriage and to women's status, elders trivialized the sheltering of runaway, childless wives.
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It trivializes suffering not by an unconnected but overpowering good, although the good is overpowering.
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My point is not totrivializethese concerns, but to argue that they are unlikely to halt the development of cosmetic neurology.
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Whigs were also less likely to masculinize women ortrivializetheir partisan motivations.
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Problems may also be trivialized by older people themselves.
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The research university encourages and accommodates wars of truth but neutralizes (trivializes?) them within a contained and static institutional framework.
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Then, too, and even when trivialized, civil authority had no rhetorical counter to a minister who questioned the world through the guiding hand of providence.
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But the revealed-preference theorist has now trivialized game theory.
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The risk of this complex process being trivialized or dismissed is great, especially when there is a lack of understanding of the issues involved.
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