'Television is dumbing down... Britain as a whole is dumbing down, ' because of its fascination with trivia and reality TV and all sorts of undemanding watching.

电视节目正在简化… … 不列颠整体在变得简单——因为它一直都着重于琐碎的电视节目和现实电视秀以及各种各样的对观众要求并不高的节目。

Thanks for dumbing that down for us.

感谢你说得这么通俗。

About celebrities and the dumbing down of culture.

说世风日下。

I'm tired of dumbing it down for you chuckle-heads.

我受够为了你们俩傻子而特意降低水平了。

Now in the 1990s, we get a different grammatical use - a use of the verb without an object, an intransitive use, 'they're dumbing down'.

而到了20世纪90年代，dumb有了另一种截然不同的语法用法——其后不接某物，也就是作为不及物动词使用，如“they're dumbing down”（后面没有带宾语）。

Instead, Mr Trump has made zealots and quislings out of Republicans while inflaming and dumbing down Democrats and polarising, which is to say corrupting, the news media.

相反，特朗普把共和党人变成了狂热分子和卖国贼，同时激怒贬低民主党人，并使新闻媒体两极分化，也就是腐败。

Executive producer Eric Carroll explained that, while the suit was originally pretty high-tech, they ended up dumbing it down quite a bit.

执行制片人埃里克·卡罗尔 (Eric Carroll) 解释说，虽然这套服装最初相当高科技，但最终他们将其简化了不少。

I've even heard the word as a noun - or the phrase really - 'I don't like the dumbing down of programmes', or for short, probably the commonest use of all now, 'I don't like all this dumbing down'.

我甚至还听见过它作为名词或是名词短语的用法-“I don't like the dumbing down of programmes（我喜欢电视节目被简化）”。或者简短一点，这大概是现在最常用的：“I don't like all this dumbing down（我讨厌所有被简化的东西）”。

Some people complain that schools are " dumbing down" the curriculum – what is being taught – meaning simplifying it to the point of making it too simple.

有些人抱怨学校正在“简化”课程——所教授的内容——意思是将其简化到过于简单的程度。