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/ˈsɪmpləfaɪ/ · /ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/
to make something easier or less hard to understand or do, by taking away the difficult parts.
簡化
過去式 simplified過去分詞 simplified-ing simplifying三單 simplifies
核心畫面
Picture a form with forty boxes being redesigned down to six, or a long explanation being cut back to the part that matters. Nothing is added — the hard or unnecessary pieces are taken out, and what is left is easier to get through.
可以想成：一張四十格的表格被重新設計成六格，或是一長串說明被砍到只剩關鍵的那幾句。這個動作不加東西進去，而是把難的、…更多收起
可以想成：一張四十格的表格被重新設計成六格，或是一長串說明被砍到只剩關鍵的那幾句。這個動作不加東西進去，而是把難的、多餘的部分拿掉，剩下的就變得比較好處理。原始詞典資料2 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。
simplifyverb/ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/
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To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
- In ancient times there existed in the region of the Tung-chia River 佟佳江 in present Liaoning a people called Kao-chü-li 高句驪. In the fifth century they moved their capital to P’ing-jang. The name of the country was simplified to Kao-li 高麗 (Korea).
- Quizzed on simplifying fares, Heaton-Harris said the Government had inherited a "mix of ticketing and unbelievable, interesting fares up and down the system, and we do want to simplify them".
- 2
To become simpler.
- Thus, throughout the nineteenth century, linguists generally held that more grammatically complex languages were older and that languages tended to simplify over time—the four grammatical cases of German as contrasted with the seven of Latin, for example.
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。