| 单词 | cookbook medicine |
| 释义 | > as lemmascookbook medicine C2. As a modifier (usually derogatory), with the sense ‘that treats something in an over simplistic or prescriptive way; limited, unimaginative’, as in cookbook knowledge, cookbook medicine, etc.Apparently recorded earliest with reference to chemistry. ΚΠ 1899 Proc. Amer. Chem. Soc. 51 The speaker discussed ‘Short Methods’ in chemical analysis and..the danger of..teaching them at the expense of the training of students in chemical science, thus giving a sort of ‘cook-book’ knowledge of chemical processes. 1907 Sierra Educ. News (Calif. Teachers Assoc.) Mar. 28/1 I do not wish to see the time when the love and glory of learning will degenerate into a striving for a sort of cookbook knowledge for skill born of the rule of thumb. 1981 M. G. Bradford in N. Wrigley & R. J. Bennett Quantitative Geogr. xxxviii. 408/1 With many syllabuses requiring..the study of sampling, but few the standard error of the mean, there is a grave danger of cook-book learning with little understanding. 2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 19 Feb. d4/4 The authors blame ‘cookbook medicine’, a fixed approach to diagnosis that focuses on a patient's chief complaint and ruling out the worse-case scenario. < as lemmas |
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