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Phr V

dumb down

dumbs, dumbing, dumbed

dumb down sth or dumb sth down

informal to make something {e.g. textbook, curriculum} simpler and easier to understand

They did not approve of dumbing down books as a way of encouraging children to read.

dumb (something) down

To make something less complicated to accommodate a less intelligent, educated, or sophisticated audience. The professor decided to dumb down the course material a bit after most of his class failed the first exam. I think we ought to dumb the play down a bit; after all, most of the people coming to see it won't have a PhD in drama.

dumb down

v. Slang

To simplify something excessively in order to make it suitable for a less educated or less sophisticated audience: The researchers dumbed down the report before releasing it to the public.

dumb down, to

To simplify or otherwise revise in order to appeal to someone of less education, taste, or intelligence. This slangy expression dates from the first half of the 1900s. Publishers Weekly used it in a review of The Business of Books by André Schiffrin: “. . . the attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator of taste, which has, he says, led network television and movies in such depressing directions, has dumbed down publishing to an alarming degree” (Aug. 21, 2000).

词组	dumb down
释义	Phr V dumb down dumbs, dumbing, dumbed dumb down sth or dumb sth down informal to make something {e.g. textbook, curriculum} simpler and easier to understand They did not approve of dumbing down books as a way of encouraging children to read. dumb down verb to simplify the content of something so that it can be understood by the general uneducated public US, 1933 phrasedumb down dumb down sth • *dumb sth* down** to change books, television programmes, education etc in a way that makes them only suitable for very unintelligent people: TV news has already been dumbed down to the point where it is presented as mere entertainment. Many high school teachers claim that the reformed curriculum has dumbed down math teaching.dumbing-down n U when things are dumbed down+ of There's too much dumbing-down of serious issues. an anti intellectual dumbing-down of textbooksdumbed-down adj made too simple in a way that is only suitable for unintelligent people: Hollywood has produced a series of dumbed-down versions of literary classics. dumb (something) down To make something less complicated to accommodate a less intelligent, educated, or sophisticated audience. The professor decided to dumb down the course material a bit after most of his class failed the first exam. I think we ought to dumb the play down a bit; after all, most of the people coming to see it won't have a PhD in drama. dumb down v. Slang To simplify something excessively in order to make it suitable for a less educated or less sophisticated audience: The researchers dumbed down the report before releasing it to the public. dumb down, to To simplify or otherwise revise in order to appeal to someone of less education, taste, or intelligence. This slangy expression dates from the first half of the 1900s. Publishers Weekly used it in a review of The Business of Books by André Schiffrin: “. . . the attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator of taste, which has, he says, led network television and movies in such depressing directions, has dumbed down publishing to an alarming degree” (Aug. 21, 2000).
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