Can you generalize about people in the South? ”

你能概括一下南方人的特征吗？”

The country, as the unit of authority, is often a convenient way of generalizing about a population.

国家作为权力单位，通常是概括人口的方便方式。

They suggest how different these experiences are from one another, and how impossible it is to generalize about them.

它们表明，这些经历彼此之间有多么不同，以及对它们进行概括是多么不可能。

Simon Goldhill, " Generalizing About Tragedy, " in Rethinking Tragedy, ed. Rita Felski (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 2.

4. Simon Goldhill，“对悲剧的概括”，载于《反思悲剧》。丽塔·费尔斯基（巴尔的摩：约翰霍普金斯大学出版社，2008 年），2。

All right, here are some other expressions you can use when you want to indicate that you are generalizing about something.

好吧，这里有一些其他的表达方式，当你想表明你正在概括某事时，你可以使用这些表达方式。

Employers may unfairly generalize about the abilities of older workers, thinking that all older workers will be less productive or less up to date on the skills needed for the job.

雇主可能会不公平地概括年长员工的能力，认为所有年长员工的工作效率都会降低或无法掌握工作所需的最新技能。

Some of these statements are still true of the Quakers today, but now there are many different groups within the Quaker organization, so it can be a little difficult to generalize about them.

这些说法中的一些在今天的贵格会仍然适用，但现在贵格会组织内有许多不同的团体， 因此很难对它们进行概括。

There were too many tribes to generalize about specific social structures but it's probably safe to say that in terms of gender they were much more egalitarian than the Europeans who they met up with.

有太多部落无法概括特定的社会结构，但可以肯定地说，就性别而言，他们比他们遇到的欧洲人更加平等。

Just like how geographic distance makes you more likely to generalize about a group of people who are different from yourself, social distance increases the likelihood that you might hold stereotypical or prejudiced views about another racial group.

就像地理距离使您更有可能对与您不同的一群人进行概括一样，社交距离增加了您对另一个种族群体持有刻板印象或偏见的可能性。