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单词 facile
释义

facile

/ˈfasʌɪl / /ˈfasɪl/
adjective
1Ignoring the true complexities of an issue; superficial: facile generalizations...
  • Ideological polarizations on educational issues tend to be facile and premature.
  • Thus, one of the fundamental problems with educational reform is that policymakers often neglect to address core social problems and instead attack peripheral issues with facile solutions.
  • However, generalizations and facile strategies are often what the public wants to hear, despite what theory and research have shown us about the complexity of classroom environments.

Synonyms

simplistic, superficial, oversimple, oversimplified, schematic, black and white;
shallow, pat, glib, slick, jejune, naive
North American informal dime-store, bubblegum
1.1(Of a person) having a superficial or simplistic knowledge or approach: a man of facile and shallow intellect...
  • The secretary is very facile with definitions.
  • She is often facile, especially when relying on pop psychology.
  • In Jeffrey's case his soul seems to get ever more shallow and facile.
2(Especially of success in sport) easily achieved; effortless: a facile seven-lengths victory...
  • Richard Johnson's mount has won his last two starts, following up a victory over this course and distance with a facile success at Folkestone last time.
  • Ferdy Murphy's gelding has struck form with a vengeance recently, scoring at Sedgefield and Catterick, his latest success being achieved in facile style.
  • The day got off to a good start for favourite backers when Northern Boy registered a facile success in the opening Balfour Kilpatrick Maiden Stakes, winning at odds of 4-7.

Derivatives

facilely

adverb ...
  • Radosh's newest book can't be as facilely dismissed as one might like.
  • The imperative that man exercise mastery over technical development is facilely accepted by everyone.
  • It is important to remember that areas not inhabited by humans for the most part - what some would facilely call ‘natural environments’ - can be extremely hazardous, sometimes more so than urban areas (for those not accustomed to them).

facileness

noun ...
  • Carlyon's text descends into the psychological realms of the coloniser and the colonised, avoiding the facileness of judgement and condemnation.
  • f we make simplicity our goal we are likely to end up with facileness instead.
  • Although such bluntness, added to a post-apocalyptic scenario, threatens to lose its audience with facileness, "Lament," avoids the glib by extending its challenge to certain theatrical traditions of characterization.

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense 'easily accomplished'): from French, or from Latin facilis 'easy', from facere 'do, make'.

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