1. 概括；歸納；作出類(lèi)推 If you generalize, you say something that seems to be true in most situations or for most people, but that may not be completely true in all cases.
e.g. 'In my day, children were a lot better behaved'. — 'It's not true, you're generalizing'... “我們那個(gè)時(shí)候，孩子們要比現在聽(tīng)話(huà)許多?！薄安灰欢?，你只是在一概而論?！?br/>e.g. It's hard to generalize about Cole Porter because he wrote so many great songs that were so varied. 科爾·波特寫(xiě)了這么多風(fēng)格迥異的優(yōu)美歌曲，要對他進(jìn)行概括并不是件容易的事。
2. 推廣；普及；擴大…的運用 If you generalize something such as an idea, you apply it more widely than its original context, as if it was true in many other situations.
generalize什么意思
e.g. A child first labels the household pet cat as a 'cat' and then generalises this label to other animals that look like it. 孩子會(huì )先把家中的寵物貓稱(chēng)為“貓”，然后將其他像貓的動(dòng)物都稱(chēng)為“貓”。
generalize英英釋義
verb
1. become systemic and spread throughout the body
e.g. this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system
Synonym: generalise
2. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public bring into general or common use
e.g. They popularized coffee in Washington State Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors