| 单词 |
simpliste |
| 释义 |
‖ simpliste, n. and a.|sɛ̃plist, ˈsɪmplɪst|
Also simplist.
[Fr.]
A. n. One who adopts an over-simplified or one-sided view of something.
1918W. O'Brien Downfall of Parliamentarianism i. 5 The simplest of simplists will now own..that the choice of Ireland in 1890 was not that..choice between vice and virtue..which would make human judgments in great affairs an enviably easy process. 1924Amer. Mercury Apr. 465/2 But Nature and History, alas! are not simplistes. 1967A. Comfort Anxiety Makers vi. 197 These are simplistes, anxious about ritual obligations, unanxious about phenomena which genuinely threaten us with death and racial extinction. 1970Guardian 12 Nov. 9/1 Robert Ardrey..is..a natural and disabling simpliste.
B. adj. That over-simplifies, one-sided; plain or uncomplicated in style.
1926L. A. Clare tr. Lévy-Bruhl's How Natives Think 15 Mental processes are infinitely more elastic, complex, and subtle, and they comprise more elements of the psychic life than a too ‘simplist’ intellectualism would allow. 1930N. & Q. CLIX. 272/2 Rather a simpliste, facile doctrine perhaps. 1950T. H. Marshall Citizenship & Social Class 84 The policy, in fact, may not be simpliste at all. 1960Encounter Jan. 86/1 He accepts a wholly simpliste leftist view. 1966N. Freeling Dresden Green i. 38 The Golden Age of Landscape Gardening, simplist, giving you the idea you could do it yourself. 1973Times 25 Apr. 14/6 The familiar story of the parting of the seas is told directly in Williamson's most simplist vein. 1977Church Times 13 May 10/2 Shouldn't some kind of theology, even though it's a bit simpliste, come in here. |
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