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oversimplified

/oh-ver-sim-pluh-fahy/US // ˌoʊ vərˈsɪm pləˌfaɪ //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈsɪmplɪˌfaɪ) //

过度简化,过于简单,过分简化,过于简化

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Definitions

  1. 1

    o·ver·sim·pli·fied, o·ver·sim·pli·fy·ing.

    • : to simplify to the point of error, distortion, or misrepresentation.

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Examples

  • While this little fable may oversimplify the history of work in America over the past century, it’s not that far off.

  • Here are a few oversimplified pieces for the sake of brevity.

  • To call it a story about Korean immigrants and the American Dream is to somehow both oversimplify and overspecify its magic.

  • Strohminger finds their story intuitive, although perhaps oversimplified.

  • Certain conditions predictably lead to high conflict—including oversimplified, binary choices and buried grievances that go unaddressed.

  • Today, to oversimplify somewhat, the white working class resembles the inner city blacks of 1965.

  • Traders, like the rest of us, have bodies, and to ignore them is to greatly oversimplify how the financial markets work.

  • Almost by definition, absolutists oversimplify, turning everything into a fight between angels and devils.

  • The author of this book recently told the BBC, “Fiction re-complicates what politicians wish to oversimplify.”

  • It is folly to attempt to oversimplify that which is of its nature complex.