in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 generalise
- VERB 概括;归纳;作出类推
If you generalize, you say something that seems to be true in most situations or for most people, but that may not be completely true in all cases.
- 'In my day, children were a lot better behaved'. — 'It's not true, you're generalizing'...
“我们那个时候,孩子们要比现在听话许多。”——“不一定,你只是在一概而论。” - It's hard to generalize about Cole Porter because he wrote so many great songs that were so varied.
科尔·波特写了这么多风格迥异的优美歌曲,要对他进行概括并不是件容易的事。
- VERB 推广;普及;扩大…的运用
If you generalize something such as an idea, you apply it more widely than its original context, as if it was true in many other situations.
- A child first labels the household pet cat as a 'cat' and then generalises this label to other animals that look like it.
孩子会先把家中的宠物猫称为“猫”,然后将其他像猫的动物都称为“猫”。