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sophistication

/suh-fis-ti-key-shuhn/US // səˌfɪs tɪˈkeɪ ʃən //

复杂性,先进性,复杂程度,复杂度

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc.: the sophistication of the wealthy.
    • : change from the natural character or simplicity, or the resulting condition.
    • : complexity, as in design or organization.
    • : impairment or debasement, as of purity or genuineness.
    • : the use of sophistry; a sophism, quibble, or fallacious argument.

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Examples

  • Compared to 2016, Russia’s online interference strategies have grown in sophistication, says Dov Levin, assistant professor of international relations at the University of Hong Kong.

  • The Lazarus laundering operation, says Janczewski, involves creating and maintaining hundreds of false accounts and identities, a consistent level of sophistication and effort that underlines just how important the operation is for Pyongyang.

  • In the end there will likely be four or perhaps five relatively large providers that can offer competing levels of technological sophistication and reach.

  • Some retailers are media owners in their own right and so there are different levels of sophistication around commerce activations.

  • Conservatives scoring highest on tests for cognitive sophistication or quantitative reasoning skills are most susceptible to motivated reasoning about climate science.

  • Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.

  • So, the display—which has the aesthetic sophistication of a middle school science project—will go up for week.

  • His dresses were worn by Hollywood stars and first ladies, emanating glamour and sophistication.

  • This Palmer stands for elegance and sophistication: the embodiment of natural gifts, both athletic and personal.

  • Anyone who thinks otherwise, to employ the emotional sophistication of “Shake It Off,” can suck it.

  • She chattered with the childish artlessness that at times veiled her sophistication.

  • Their being very much cheaper accounts for the sophistication.

  • Sophistication has often been resorted to in order ostensibly to improve damaged or cheap coffee.

  • It is the ideal of being natural, of being primitive, dismissing "refinements" and the tricks of literary sophistication.

  • Glahn and Edvarda are both essentially and deeply primitive though afflicted with a blight of sophistication.