| 单词 | (the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom |
| 释义 | (the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom(the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom 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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