| 单词 | (the) conventional wisdom |
| 释义 | (the) conventional wisdom(the) conventional wisdom 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) |
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