In the process they offer compelling evidence for the thesis that public exams, such as the GCSEs taken at 16, have been dumbed down.

在他们为这个理论提供令人信服证据的过程中，诸如16岁参加的普通中等教育证书的公共考试已经降低了难度。

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In effect, Web 2.0 software components can be intentionally dumbed down because they don't have to contain compile-time management software.

实际上，可以对Web 2.0软件组件进行有意识地简化，因为它们不一定包含编译时的管理软件。

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But language experts say that no matter how dumbed down the techno shorthand looks, the wordplay has a positive impact on students' spelling smarts.

但语言学家们说不论那些电子缩写看起来有多傻，这种文字游戏确实对提高学生的拼写能力有积极影响。

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You open what we call the "text editor," the specific one we used on Wednesday was called Nano, -- which is similar to Notepad or TextEdit -- totally simple, kind of dumbed down but in a useful way so that you can just focus on writing code and not learning some new interface.

你先打开那个“文本编辑器“,就是我们周三用过的叫做Nano的编辑器，这个跟写字板和记事本差不多-,非常简单的，只是通过一种有用的方法而进行精简了的,所以你们可以把注意力集中在编写代码上,而不需要学习一些新的界面操作。

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