Boy, this country sure has dumbed down in the last hundred years.

这一百年来这国家一定是变笨了。

It was transitive, that is the verb governed an object, 'you're dumbing something down'.

它是一个及物动词，即可带宾语的动词，比如“you're dumbing something down”——你在简化事情。

He also dumbed it down as much as possible.

他还尽可能地简化了它。

Thanks for dumbing that down for us.

感谢你说得这么通俗。

Yes.People said USA Today " dumbed down" the news.

是的，人们说《今日美国》把这个消息" 哑巴化" 了。

I'm tired of dumbing it down for you chuckle-heads.

我受够为了你们俩傻子而特意降低水平了。

International and literate readers don't want " dumbed down" news.

国际读者和有文化的读者不希望" 哑巴" 新闻。

I dumbed it down because some of the more religious people in town were starting to say I was a witch.

我弃用了那个名字因为当时我家乡有些信教的人开始说我是个巫婆。

It's got a whole range of grammatical use now, both transitive and intransitive, you get, 'it's been dumbed down', 'it's being dumbed down' ...

Dumb如今在语法上有一系列的新用法，可以是及物动词，也可以是不及物动词，例如：“it's been dumbed down”或“it's being dumbed down”等。

For instance, a newspaper making a story more appealing to the masses would say, 'we're dumbing it down', or something like that.

比如，新闻报道要想更能吸引民众的眼球，报社会采取使其简化或类似的方法。

Executive producer Eric Carroll explained that, while the suit was originally pretty high-tech, they ended up dumbing it down quite a bit.

执行制片人埃里克·卡罗尔 (Eric Carroll) 解释说，虽然这套服装最初相当高科技，但最终他们将其简化了不少。

Now in the 1990s, we get a different grammatical use - a use of the verb without an object, an intransitive use, 'they're dumbing down'.

而到了20世纪90年代，dumb有了另一种截然不同的语法用法——其后不接某物，也就是作为不及物动词使用，如“they're dumbing down”（后面没有带宾语）。

'Television is dumbing down... Britain as a whole is dumbing down, ' because of its fascination with trivia and reality TV and all sorts of undemanding watching.

电视节目正在简化… … 不列颠整体在变得简单——因为它一直都着重于琐碎的电视节目和现实电视秀以及各种各样的对观众要求并不高的节目。

But what they found was that dolphins dumbed down the complexity of their whistles and raised their pitch, when they were competing with shipping noise. Like this.

但他们发现，海豚在噪音中交流时，会降低哨声的复杂性并提高音调。

Instead, Mr Trump has made zealots and quislings out of Republicans while inflaming and dumbing down Democrats and polarising, which is to say corrupting, the news media.

相反，特朗普把共和党人变成了狂热分子和卖国贼，同时激怒贬低民主党人，并使新闻媒体两极分化，也就是腐败。

Some people complain that schools are " dumbing down" the curriculum – what is being taught – meaning simplifying it to the point of making it too simple.

有些人抱怨学校正在“简化”课程——所教授的内容——意思是将其简化到过于简单的程度。