• 基础释义
  • 例句
  • 柯林斯词典释义
例句
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
  • VERB
    概括;归纳;作出类推
    If you generalize, you say something that seems to be true in most situations or for most people, but that may not be completely true in all cases.
    例句
    'In my day, children were a lot better behaved'. — 'It's not true, you're generalizing'... “我们那个时候,孩子们要比现在听话许多。”——“不一定,你只是在一概而论。” It's hard to generalize about Cole Porter because he wrote so many great songs that were so varied. 科尔·波特写了这么多风格迥异的优美歌曲,要对他进行概括并不是件容易的事。
  • VERB
    推广;普及;扩大…的运用
    If you generalize something such as an idea, you apply it more widely than its original context, as if it was true in many other situations.
    例句
    A child first labels the household pet cat as a 'cat' and then generalises this label to other animals that look like it. 孩子会先把家中的宠物猫称为“猫”,然后将其他像猫的动物都称为“猫”。