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Generalise is the British spelling of . The word means to take a few cases and make a wider claim — to say ‘this is how it usually is’. Scientists generalise from results; everyday people generalise from one bad meal to ‘that whole street is awful’. Used kindly, it is how we learn patterns. Used loosely, it turns into a unfair jump: one person, then ‘they all…’. Teachers and newspapers in Britain often write -ise (generalise, organise). American books write -ize (). Though actually, some British publishers, including Oxford, prefer -ize even in Britain; most British school English still teaches -ise. The meaning does not change with the spelling. You can also generalise a rule so it covers more cases, or speak in a generalising way when you do not want to be exact.
概括;推論(英國拼法;寫得太衝時帶「以偏概全」的意思)
組成From general + the verb ending -ise.
同家族的字
- generalthe stem: ‘wide, not one special case’
- generalizethe same verb in American spelling
- generalisationthe noun: the wide claim you make
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。