rationalize 的 2 个定义
ra·tion·al·ized, ra·tion·al·iz·ing.
- to ascribe to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- to remove unreasonable elements from.
- to make rational or conformable to reason.
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ra·tion·al·ized, ra·tion·al·iz·ing.
- to invent plausible explanations for acts, opinions, etc., that are actually based on other causes: He tried to prove that he was not at fault, but he was obviously rationalizing.
- to employ reason; think in a rational or rationalistic manner.
rationalize 近义词
make excuse; justify
更多rationalize例句
- While some react by abandoning the worldview entirely, many others find that rationalizing what went wrong is cognitively easier than admitting you, yourself, were the one who was wrong.
- All these trends, especially when they layer on top of and reinforce each other, help create an atmosphere where violence against opponents is rationalized and politics becomes a game to win at any cost.
- Yes, in the moment, they transcend our tendency to rationalize and victim-blame, and they get national attention by virtue of their terrible scale.
- Prosecutor Raj Parekh dismissed the defense as retrospective attempts to rationalize Donald’s behavior.
- It might be rationalized as a decision made by a consciously aware species, but it could also be seen as a direct, mechanistic extension of the efficacy of gene exchange and sexual reproduction in perpetuating the phenomenon of life.
- Because as an actor, you have to rationalize his decisions constantly.
- That conservative can always rationalize his actions—platitudes come cheap.
- Let us not rationalize or attempt to justify an expulsion that in our hearts we know is wrong.
- Rather than rationalize the tax code, or reform entitlements, the government has taken a cleaver to discretionary spending.
- They rationalize away the facts, defend their position, and actually become more fervent.
- It is at present a quite inexplicable story, and we give these preposterous facts with no attempt to rationalize them.
- Nor, as a matter of fact, is it any more easy for the militarist to rationalize his method of solving world difficulties.
- At present we give way to resentful passion, and then "rationalize" our surrender by calling it a vindication of justice.
- I wanted her near my own size again as though the blessed normality of that would rationalize and lessen her danger.
- It is more evil to "rationalize" the act—to invent a moral reason for doing an infamous thing.