| 词组 | simplistic |
| 释义 | simplistic Simplistic is usually a denigrating word that means "oversimplified." However, it is occasionally used with the neutral meaning "simple," a fact that causes some prescriptivists to start prescribing. There may, we must concede, be some cause for complaint here, for, although simplistic clearly means "simple" in a few of the citations we have, in other citations the meaning is not so straightforward, and the use is potentially confusing: • Despite much current oratory, there are no simplistic solutions —Robert C. Weaver, Michigan Business Rev., July 1968 • ... the question cannot be simplistically or in any sense definitively answered now —Malcolm Boyd, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 16 Apr. 1967 • ... to show variety of Hindu thought from simplistic tales to sophisticated speculations —Callie Kingsbury, English Jour., January 1975 • ... the simplistic murals ... still circumnavigated the upper reaches of a dining room distinguished by the mellowness of its patina —Jay Jacobs, Gourmet, April 1980 Many people who think of simplistic as a word with negative connotations, as they are probably entitled to from the dominant use, will be taken aback by such neutral uses and may even misunderstand them. Shaw 1975 and Ebbitt & Ebbitt 1982 call simplistic a vogue word, and indeed the bulk of our evidence for simplistic is from the past two decades. We see no reason to disdain a word just because other people happen to find it useful, but we do counsel using this one as a pejorative rather than a neutrally descriptive term. |
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