sophistication

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Enlightenment or education. countable,uncountable
  2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire. countable,uncountable
  3. Deceptive logic; sophistry. countable,uncountable
  4. Falsification, contamination. countable,uncountable
  5. Complexity. countable,uncountable
    — The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.
  6. Ability to deal with complexity. countable,uncountable
  7. The act of sophisticating; adulteration. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — the sophistication of drugs

词形变化

sophistications plural

词汇关系

反义词
provincialism
衍生词
oversophistication ultrasophistication unsophistication

词源

From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.
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