| 词汇 | conventional wisdom |
| 释义 | conventional wisdomconventional wisdom 1 EVERYONEthe opinion that most people consider to be normal and right, but that is sometimes shown to be wrong 〔有时是错误的〕公众意见，普遍看法 As traffic grew, the conventional wisdom was to widen the roads. 交通流量增加，一般公众的意见就是拓宽道路。 Examples from the Corpus (the) conventional wisdom• All that, at least, is the conventional wisdom.• Keynes, as we shall see presently, was on his way to being the new fountainhead of conventional wisdom.• He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.• Around here, the conventional wisdom is that the number and volume of charges are more politically important than subsequent facts.• As usual, conventional wisdom may not be wholly right.• But the conventional wisdom might be wrong.• The conventional wisdom of the late 1970s blamed Britain's high unemployment on the trade unions, which priced workers out of jobs.• They had broken decisively with the conventional wisdom of the traditionalist and mercantilist society.• Conventional wisdom says that gang members must be reached early to change. → (the) conventional wisdom at conventional(1) 2 OPINIONa belief or opinion that most people have 普遍的看法/公认的见解/传统的信念等 The conventional wisdom is that boys mature more slowly than girls. 人们普遍认为男孩比女孩晚熟。 Examples from the Corpus (the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom• We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom.• Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths, even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom.• Evidence introduced to bolster orthodoxy in one field frequently carried unforeseen implications for conventional wisdom in another.• That is all as it should be: but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom.• He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.• Under the stress of circumstance, the conventional wisdom is rejected.• This pre-eminently is an occasion when we would expect the conventional wisdom to lose touch with the reality.• Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain. → (the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom at wisdom(1) |
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