sophistication

複雑さ、高度さ

細かく作り込まれた多くの部分や、高度な方法を備えている度合い。

やさしい英語で： The degree to which something has many carefully developed parts or uses advanced methods.

• The system’s sophistication surprised us.
• These attacks show increasing technical sophistication.
• We underestimated the sophistication of the criminal network.

類義語： complexity

反対語： simplicity

よく使う表現： technical sophistication, growing sophistication, sophistication of something

詭弁

巧みに見えるが、人を誤解させる議論を使った論法。

やさしい英語で： Reasoning that seems clever but uses misleading arguments.

• His speech relied on sophistication.
• She challenged the sophistication in his argument.
• The writer used sophistication to make a false claim seem reasonable.

類義語： sophistry

よく使う表現： logical sophistication, sophistication of arguments