dumb down | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)Toconveysome subject matter insimpleterms, avoidingtechnicaloracademiclanguage, especially in a way that is consideredcondescending.The public won't understand this concept. We need todumb downour explanation of it.; (idiomatic,intransitive)Tobecomesimplerinexpressionorcontent; to becomeunacceptablysimplistic.Television has reallydumbed downover the past ten years.1995,Carl Sagan, “Science and Hope”, inThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark‎[1], 1st edition,New York:Random House,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,pages25–26:Thedumbing downof America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudo-science and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.2021December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, inRAIL, number947, pages32–33:As the reports are written for both the industry and general public, inspectors are required to use accessible language that is free from jargon but without 'dumbing down'.

Examples:

EN: The geniuses at Pacific Motors have now decided to spotlight the car... and dumb down the concept.
ES: Los genios de Pacific Motors ahora decidieron promocionar el auto... y estupidizar el concepto.
EN: We wanna dumb down.
ES: Queremos idiotizar.
ES: Queremos idiotizar.
ES: Queremos idiotizar.
EN: He doesn't dumb down the lessons for minorities like they do in public school. - Or distort history to mollify them.
ES: No baja el nivel de las clases como en las escuelas públicas ni distorsiona la historia.
EN: The decision was made, you know, let's get all the debt up, let's move the jobs abroad and instead of re-engineering your skills we're gonna dumb down America and so the middle class will dissapear.
ES: La decisión fue tomada: subamos el nivel de deuda, llevemos los empleos al extranjero y en vez de volver a formarte, vamos a hacer que EEUU sea más estúpido para que la clase media desaparezca.
EN: Looks like you found a new level of dumb down here.
ES: Parece que has encontrado un nuevo nivel de estupidez por aquí.
EN: - I took your abilities into account and decided to dumb down the essay a little.
ES: Tuve en cuenta tus habilidades y decidí estropearlo un poco.
EN: So the producers, they dumb down the plots, Make it easier to keep up with while their viewers multitask.
ES: Entonces, los productores hacen más tontas las tramas las hacen más fáciles de seguir mientras el televidente hace otras cosas.
EN: Just waiting for the right moment to dumb down, and wrap those skinny little legs around him.
ES: Esperando el momento correcto para hacerte la tonta y enroscar esas piernas flacas alrededor de él.
EN: I refuse to dumb down my sound for anybody.
ES: Me rehúso a simplificar mi sonido por nadie.
EN: If I can't bring down Farnsworth, I can at least dumb down his robot.
ES: Si no puedo derrotar a Farnsworth, al menos puedo derrotar a su estúpido robot.
EN: But your rats didn't dumb down.
ES: Pero tus ratas no se volvían más tontas.
EN: If I don't dumb down that machine, it won't work
ES: Si no lo hago embrutecer esa máquina, no funcionará
EN: They dumb down the game.
ES: Bajan el nivel del juego.
EN: Religion serves to dumb down the people.
ES: La religión embrutece al pueblo.
EN: But you know, people kinda want simpler stuff, so, let's kind of dumb down production and give them what they want.
ES: Pero la gente quiere algo más simple, así que hagamos algo más tonto y démosles lo que quieren.

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