n.肤浅，低能化

dumbing downs───使……简化；使……通俗易懂；降低……的难度

tumbling down───破败；半破坏；倒塌

damping down───压火；[冶]休风

dusting down───除去…的灰尘

lambing down───羔羊

rubbing down───抛磨

climbing down───爬下；让步

doubling down───加倍下注

burning down───烧毁，火力减弱

Middle-class teenagers are less intelligent than ageneration ago due to the dumbing down of youth culture and schooltests, a new study suggests.───最新研究显示，由于文化传播与校园教育的低能化，如今中产阶级家庭的青少年的智商要比他们的上代人偏低。

The commercialisation and dumbing down of football is our fault - for being so greedy.───足球的商业化和全面堕落是我们的错 —— 我们太贪婪了.

the most unexpected benefit of Enterprise Web 2.0 manageability is the scope it provides for dumbing down constituent software elements.───Enterprise Web 2.0 可管理性的最出乎意料的优点是，它为简化软件元素提供的范围。

This sounded like a case for dumbing down the magazine, which no one favoured.───这听起来像是一桩使杂志通俗化的事，没人赞成。

The General Synod accused broadcasters of dumbing down religious programmes.

Last Blood's peculiar Armageddon co-op is one that makes for great bar conversation (trust me), without dumbing down an entire genre as a Tuesday night antidote to AMC's latest zombie hit.

The philosophy of levelling up rather than dumbing down extends to education.

He accused broadcasters of contributing to the dumbing down of America.

No one favored dumbing down the magazine.

Television has been blamed for the dumbing down of the American public since the ascendance of the boob tube in the 1950s.